Automated extraction of lymph nodes from 3-D abdominal CT images using 3-D minimum directional difference filter

Authors:
Takayuki Kitasaka;Yukihiro Tsujimura;Yoshihiko Nakamura;Kensaku Mori;Yasuhito Suenaga;Masaaki Ito;Shigeru Nawano
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan;National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan;National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Venue:
MICCAI'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a method for extracting lymph node regions from 3-D abdominal CT images using 3-D minimum directional difference filter. In the case of surgery of colonic cancer, resection of metastasis lesions is performed with resection of a primary lesion. Lymph nodes are main route of metastasis and are quite important for deciding resection area. Diagnosis of enlarged lymph nodes is quite important process for surgical planning. However, manual detection of enlarged lymph nodes on CT images is quite burden task. Thus, development of lymph node detection process is very helpful for assisting such surgical planning task. Although there are several report that present lymph node detection, these methods detect lymph nodes primary from PET images or detect in 2-D image processing way. There is no method that detects lymph nodes directly from 3-D images. The purpose of this paper is to show an automated method for detecting lymph nodes from 3-D abdominal CT images. This method employs a 3-D minimum directional difference filter for enhancing blob structures with suppressing line structures. After that, false positive regions caused by residua and vein are eliminated using several kinds of information such as size, blood vessels, air in the colon. We applied the proposed method to three cases of 3-D abdominal CT images. The experimental results showed that the proposed method could detect 57.0 % of enlarged lymph nodes with 58 FPs per case.