Development of optimized segmentation map in dual energy computed tomography

Keisuke Yamakawa; Hironori Ueki

doi:10.1117/12.910842

3 March 2012 Development of optimized segmentation map in dual energy computed tomography

Keisuke Yamakawa, Hironori Ueki

Proceedings Volume 8313, Medical Imaging 2012: Physics of Medical Imaging; 83132W (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910842
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Dual energy computed tomography (DECT) has been widely used in clinical practice and has been particularly effective for tissue diagnosis. In DECT the difference of two attenuation coefficients acquired by two kinds of X-ray energy enables tissue segmentation. One problem in conventional DECT is that the segmentation deteriorates in some cases, such as bone removal. This is due to two reasons. Firstly, the segmentation map is optimized without considering the Xray condition (tube voltage and current). If we consider the tube voltage, it is possible to create an optimized map, but unfortunately we cannot consider the tube current. Secondly, the X-ray condition is not optimized. The condition can be set empirically, but this means that the optimized condition is not used correctly. To solve these problems, we have developed methods for optimizing the map (Method-1) and the condition (Method-2). In Method-1, the map is optimized to minimize segmentation errors. The distribution of the attenuation coefficient is modeled by considering the tube current. In Method-2, the optimized condition is decided to minimize segmentation errors depending on tube voltagecurrent combinations while keeping the total exposure constant. We evaluated the effectiveness of Method-1 by performing a phantom experiment under the fixed condition and of Method-2 by performing a phantom experiment under different combinations calculated from the total exposure constant. When Method-1 was followed with Method-2, the segmentation error was reduced from 37.8 to 13.5 %. These results demonstrate that our developed methods can achieve highly accurate segmentation while keeping the total exposure constant.

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Keisuke Yamakawa and Hironori Ueki "Development of optimized segmentation map in dual energy computed tomography", Proc. SPIE 8313, Medical Imaging 2012: Physics of Medical Imaging, 83132W (3 March 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910842

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Image segmentation

X-rays

Tissues

Bone

Signal attenuation

X-ray imaging

Blood vessels

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