Title
Augmenting tumor sensitive matching flow to improve detection and segmentation of ovarian cancer metastases within a PDE framework
Abstract
The detection and segmentation of ovarian cancer metastases have potentially great clinical impact on women's healthcare. We recently developed a tumor sensitive matching flow (TSMF) technique to locate metastases by juxtaposing the roles of matching and classification within a PDE framework. This paper further augments the TSMF approach by integrating 1) shape index to measure metastasis-caused deformation, 2) Gaussian mixture model to describe metastasis intensity distribution, 3) total variation (TV) flow to enhance metastasis regions, and 4) TSMF vector displacements to control the amount of level-set propagation. The method was validated on contrast-enhanced CT data from 30 patients, of which 15 have 37 metastases in total. The true positive rate was 87% compared to 76% in our earlier work. Moreover, the false positive rate per patients was dropped to 1.1 from 4.2 in our earlier work. The metastasis segmentation achieved a Dice coefficient of 80.0±7.2%. All these experimental results demonstrated that shape index, Gaussian mixture model, TV flow, and TSMF-constrained level set propagation substantially improve the accuracy of metastasis detection and segmentation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556559
ISBI
Keywords
Field
DocType
gynaecology,ovarian cancer metastases,contrast enhanced ct data,true positive rate,tumor sensitive matching flow augmentation,computerised tomography,image matching,pde classification,shape recognition,metastasis intensity distribution,image segmentation,pde matching,women healthcare,tumor segmentation,tsmf vector displacement,tsmf technique,metastasis detection accuracy,cancer,metastasis region,image classification,tumor sensitive matching flow,metastasis segmentation accuracy,partial differential equations,level-set propagation,tumours,metastasis-caused deformation measurement,shape index,total variation flow,dice coefficient,metastasis location,biological organs,gaussian mixture model,ovarian cancer metastasis,medical image processing,false positive rate,image motion analysis,shape,indexes
Metastasis,Computer vision,False positive rate,Pattern recognition,Sørensen–Dice coefficient,Computer science,Segmentation,Level set,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Contextual image classification,Mixture model
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1945-7928
978-1-4673-6456-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianfei Liu18112.98
Shijun Wang223922.83
Marius George Linguraru336248.94
Jianhua Yao41135110.49
Ronald M. Summers513910.93