Automated segmentation of CBCT image with prior-guided sequential random forest

Li Wang, Yaozong Gao, Feng Shi, Gang Li, Ken Chung Chen, Zhen Tang, James J. Xia, Dinggang Shen

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Abstract

A major limitation of CBCT scans is the widespread image artifacts such as noise, beam hardening and inhomogeneity, causing great difficulty for accurate segmentation of bony structures from soft tissues, as well as separation of mandible from maxilla. In this paper, we present a novel fully automated method for CBCT image segmentation. Specifically, we first employ majority voting to estimate the initial probability maps of mandible and maxilla. We then extract both the appearance features from CBCTs and the context features from the initial probability maps to train the first-layer of classifier. Based on the first-layer of trained classifier, the probability maps are updated, which will be employed to further train the next layer of classifier. By iteratively training the subsequent classifier and the updated segmentation probability maps, we can derive a sequence of classifiers. Experimental results on 30 CBCTs show that the proposed method achieves the state-of-the-art performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMedical Computer Vision
Subtitle of host publicationAlgorithms for Big Data - International Workshop, MCV 2015 and Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2015, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMichael Kelm, Henning Müller, Bjoern Menze, Shaoting Zhang, Dimitris Metaxas, Georg Langs, Albert Montillo, Weidong Cai
PublisherSpringer-Verlag
Pages72-82
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783319420158
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
EventInternational Workshop on Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention, 2015 MICCAI - Germany, Germany
Duration: Oct 9 2015Oct 9 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9601 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

OtherInternational Workshop on Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention, 2015 MICCAI
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityGermany
Period10/9/1510/9/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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