Title
Segmentation Of Pelvic Organs At Risk Using Superpixels And Graph Diffusion In Prostate Radiotherapy
Abstract
Segmentation of organs at risk (OAR) in male pelvis is critical for planning prostate cancer radiotherapy. We are interested in femoral heads, rectum and bladder segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) images in order to protect OARs during radiotherapy planning. The proposed methodology is based on super pixel algorithm in order to over -segment patient image by solving a local Eikonal function from initial seeds. Afterwards, the segmentation is obtained by computing a graph diffusion on a region adjacency graph (RAG) extracted from the over -segmentation thanks to some nodes labeled by the user. Superpixel segmentation is carried out slice -by -slice in 2D. Then, a RAG is constructed in 3D to obtain 3D OAR segmentation. The influence of the initial number of seeds on the segmentation is studied. The performances of the algorithm is evaluated and compared to 4 other methods.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
2015 IEEE 12TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING (ISBI)
Segmentation, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Superpixel, Radiotherapy
Field
DocType
ISSN
Adjacency list,Computer vision,Graph,Pelvic organs,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Image segmentation,Computed tomography,Artificial intelligence,Grayscale,Magnetic resonance imaging
Conference
1945-7928
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maxime Guinin110.69
Ruan Su255953.00
L Nkhali3101.04
Bernard Dubray4122.62
Laurent Massoptier5163.75
Isabelle Gardin6314.55