NDLI: A novel cooperative approach for cardiac PET image segmentation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Dedic, R. Allili, M.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: Bishop's University, Department of Computer Science, Sherbrooke, Canada (Allili, M.) \|\| Université de Sherbrooke, Département de mathématiques, Canada (Dedic, R.)
Abstract	The main objective of this work is to develop a cooperative segmentation method for the mouse myocardium PET images based on deformable models with topological constraints and statistical analysis of the regions where the deformation contours are initialized. Two moving curves, one from inside of the left ventricle and one from the outside of the heart will be deformed to track heart boundaries. More precisely, topology constraints are incorporated to the energy functional governing the evolution of the contours to avoid any collision while allowing them to compete against each other until stabilization. First, we locate the heart, which is the region of interest (ROI) for our study, using level sets with high internal energy initialized from the extremities of the image. It is followed by a Bayesian classification and the application of the mean shift clustering algorithm to locate the center of the left ventricle region. This is where a second contour (interior contour) is initialized. The coupled contours allow to detect the correct myocardial boundaries and compute a number of useful quantities such as the ejection-fraction of the left ventricle and the myocardium wall thickness. The model was applied successfully to the automatic segmentation of the PET images of a mouse myocardium as measured by the Sherbrooke LabPET scanner.
Starting Page	11
Ending Page	16
File Size	533843
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467303811
e-ISBN	9781467303828
e-ISBN	9781467303804
DOI	10.1109/ISSPA.2012.6310474
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-07-02
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Heart Photonics Myocardium Positron emission tomography Image segmentation Detectors Topology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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