Spine detection and labeling using a parts-based graphical model

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Schmidt;Jörg Kappes;Martin Bergtholdt;Vladimir Pekar;Sebastian Dries;Daniel Bystrov;Christoph Schnörr

  • Affiliations:
  • Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany and University of Mannheim, Germany;University of Mannheim, Germany;University of Mannheim, Germany;Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany;Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany;Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany;University of Mannheim, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IPMI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information processing in medical imaging
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The detection and extraction of complex anatomical structures usually involves a trade-off between the complexity of local feature extraction and classification, and the complexity and performance of the subsequent structural inference from the viewpoint of combinatorial optimization. Concerning the latter, computationally efficient methods are of particular interest that return the globally-optimal structure. We present an efficient method for part-based localization of anatomical structures which embeds contextual shape knowledge in a probabilistic graphical model. It allows for robust detection even when some of the part detections are missing. The application scenario for our statistical evaluation is spine detection and labeling in magnetic resonance images.