Computerized segmentation of whole-body bone scintigrams and its use in automated diagnostics

Authors:
Luka Šajn;Matja Kukar;Igor Kononenko;Metka Milčinski
Affiliations:
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Traška 25, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia;University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Traška 25, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia;University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Traška 25, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia;University Medical Centre in Ljubljana, Department for Nuclear Medicine, Zaloška 7, SI-1525 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Venue:
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Bone scintigraphy or whole-body bone scan is one of the most common diagnostic procedures in nuclear medicine used in the last 25 years. Pathological conditions, technically poor image resolution and artefacts necessitate that algorithms use sufficient background knowledge of anatomy and spatial relations of bones in order to work satisfactorily. A robust knowledge based methodology for detecting reference points of the main skeletal regions that is simultaneously applied on anterior and posterior whole-body bone scintigrams is presented. Expert knowledge is represented as a set of parameterized rules which are used to support standard image-processing algorithms. Our study includes 467 consecutive, non-selected scintigrams, which is, to our knowledge the largest number of images ever used in such studies. Automatic analysis of whole-body bone scans using our segmentation algorithm gives more accurate and reliable results than previous studies. Obtained reference points are used for automatic segmentation of the skeleton, which is applied to automatic (machine learning) or manual (expert physicians) diagnostics. Preliminary experiments show that an expert system based on machine learning closely mimics the results of expert physicians.