Template-based automatic extraction of the joint space of foot bones from CT scan

Eunbi Park; Taeho Kim; Jinah Park

doi:10.1117/12.2214956

21 March 2016 Template-based automatic extraction of the joint space of foot bones from CT scan

Eunbi Park, Taeho Kim, Jinah Park

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Proceedings Volume 9784, Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing; 97841U (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214956
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Clean bone segmentation is critical in studying the joint anatomy for measuring the spacing between the bones. However, separation of the coupled bones in CT images is sometimes difficult due to ambiguous gray values coming from the noise and the heterogeneity of bone materials as well as narrowing of the joint space. For fine reconstruction of the individual local boundaries, manual operation is a common practice where the segmentation remains to be a bottleneck. In this paper, we present an automatic method for extracting the joint space by applying graph cut on Markov random field model to the region of interest (ROI) which is identified by a template of 3D bone structures. The template includes encoded articular surface which identifies the tight region of the high-intensity bone boundaries together with the fuzzy joint area of interest. The localized shape information from the template model within the ROI effectively separates the bones nearby. By narrowing the ROI down to the region including two types of tissue, the object extraction problem was reduced to binary segmentation and solved via graph cut. Based on the shape of a joint space marked by the template, the hard constraint was set by the initial seeds which were automatically generated from thresholding and morphological operations. The performance and the robustness of the proposed method are evaluated on 12 volumes of ankle CT data, where each volume includes a set of 4 tarsal bones (calcaneus, talus, navicular and cuboid).

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Eunbi Park, Taeho Kim, and Jinah Park "Template-based automatic extraction of the joint space of foot bones from CT scan", Proc. SPIE 9784, Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing, 97841U (21 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214956

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KEYWORDS

Bone

Image segmentation

Computed tomography

3D modeling

Binary data

Data modeling

Detection and tracking algorithms

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