Wavelet-driven knowledge-based MRI calf muscle segmentation

  • Authors:
  • Salma Essafi;G. Langs;J-F. Deux;A. Rahmouni;G. Bassez;N. Paragios

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire MAS, Ecole Centrale Paris, Châtenay-Malabry and GALEN Group, INRIA Saclay, Orsay, France;CIR Lab, Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria;Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Henri Mondor, Créteil, France;Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Henri Mondor, Créteil, France;Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Henri Mondor, Créteil, France;Laboratoire MAS, Ecole Centrale Paris, Châtenay-Malabry and GALEN Group, INRIA Saclay, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • ISBI'09 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE international conference on Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose a novel representation of shape variation using diffusion wavelets, and a search paradigm based on local features. The representation can reflect arbitrary and continuous interdependencies in the training data. In contrast to state-of-the-art methods our approach during the learning stage optimizes the coefficients as well as the number and the position of landmarks using geometric constraints. During the learning stage the approach obtains a landmark shape model, based on diffusion maps. For the model search we apply an approach related to active feature models; the location of landmarks is updated iteratively, using local features, and the canonical correlation analysis. The resulting search is independent from the topology of the anatomical structure, and can represent complex geometric and photometric dependencies of the structure of interest. We report promising results on challenging medical data sets of T1 MRI full calf muscles.