A Bayesian Approach for Liver Analysis: Algorithm and Validation Study

Authors:
Moti Freiman;Ofer Eliassaf;Yoav Taieb;Leo Joskowicz;Jacob Sosna
Affiliations:
School of Eng. and Computer Science, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel;School of Eng. and Computer Science, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel;School of Eng. and Computer Science, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel;School of Eng. and Computer Science, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel;Dept. of Radiology, School of Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew Univ. Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Venue:
MICCAI '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Part I
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We present a new method for the simultaneous, nearly automatic segmentation of liver contours, vessels, and metastatic lesions from abdominal CTA scans. The method repeatedly applies multi-resolution, multi-class smoothed Bayesian classification followed by morphological adjustment and active contours refinement. It uses multi-class and voxel neighborhood information to compute an accurate intensity distribution function for each class. The method requires only one or two user-defined voxel seeds, with no manual adjustment of internal parameters. A retrospective study on two validated clinical datasets totaling 56 CTAs was performed. We obtained correlations of 0.98 and 0.99 with a manual ground truth liver volume estimation for the first and second databases, and a total score of 67.87 for the second database. These results suggest that our method is accurate, efficient, and robust to seed selection compared to manually generated ground truth segmentation and to other semi-automatic segmentation methods.