Title
Segmentation of parathyroid tumors from DCE-MRI using Linear Dynamic System analysis
Abstract
Detection of parathyroid tumor using conventional imaging modalities such as Sestamibi and 4D CT suffer from poor resolution or excessive radiation to the parathyroids. Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) is emerging as a viable option for detecting parathyroid tumors. However, conventional quantitative methods to segment tumors from DCE-MRI, which include black-box methods and pharmacokinetic models, are highly sensitive to imaging noise, inhomogeneity, timing of the contrast injection and image acquisition. Time series analysis has proven to be a useful tool to extract features from the data in the presence of noise and signal uncertainty. In this paper, we model the underlying tissue as a Linear Dynamic System (LDS) and estimate the system parameters using the timeintensity curves observed at each voxel. The system parameters are then clustered into healthy and tumor class. The result of the LDS based segmentation algorithm, compared to the radiologist's segmentation, shows accurate delineation of the tumor and robustness to imaging noise.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556812
ISBI
Keywords
Field
DocType
time series analysis,contrast injection,parathyroid tumor detection,noise imaging,dce-mri,parameter estimation,4d computerised tomography,image segmentation,black-box methods,signal uncertainty,linear dynamic system analysis,sestamibi,image denoising,radiologist segmentation,conventional imaging modalities,pharmacokinetic models,feature extraction,biomedical mri,image acquisition,dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging,parathyroid tumor segmentation,tumours,time-intensity curves,system parameter estimation,image enhancement,conventional quantitative methods,biological organs,time series,medical image processing,noise,magnetic resonance imaging,computed tomography
Voxel,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Feature extraction,Robustness (computer science),Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Estimation theory,Parathyroid tumors,Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1945-7928
978-1-4673-6456-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jagadeesan Jayender15614.09
Daniel T. Ruan200.34
Vivek Narayan300.34
Neha Agrawal482.58
Ferenc A. Jolesz52154362.23
Hatsuho Mamata6142.32