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Tian Zhang

at Technische Univ Delft

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Proceedings Article | 2 March 2018 Paper

A hybrid segmentation method for partitioning the liver based on 4D DCE-MR images

Tian Zhang, Zhiyi Wu, Jurgen Runge, Cristina Lavini, Jaap Stoker, Thomas van Gulik, Kasia Cieslak, Lucas van Vliet, Frans Vos

Proceedings Volume 10574, 1057434 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293530

KEYWORDS: Image segmentation, Liver, Spatial resolution, Magnetic resonance imaging, Image registration

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The Couinaud classification of hepatic anatomy partitions the liver into eight functionally independent segments. Detection and segmentation of the hepatic vein (HV), portal vein (PV) and inferior vena cava (IVC) plays an important role in the subsequent delineation of the liver segments. To facilitate pharmacokinetic modeling of the liver based on the same data, a 4D DCE-MR scan protocol was selected. This yields images with high temporal resolution but low spatial resolution. Since the liver’s vasculature consists of many tiny branches, segmentation of these images is challenging. The proposed framework starts with registration of the 4D DCE-MRI series followed by region growing from manually annotated seeds in the main branches of key blood vessels in the liver. It calculates the Pearson correlation between the time intensity curves (TICs) of a seed and all voxels. A maximum correlation map for each vessel is obtained by combining the correlation maps for all branches of the same vessel through a maximum selection per voxel. The maximum correlation map is incorporated in a level set scheme to individually delineate the main vessels. Subsequently, the eight liver segments are segmented based on three vertical intersecting planes fit through the three skeleton branches of HV and IVC’s center of mass as well as a horizontal plane fit through the skeleton of PV. Our segmentation regarding delineation of the vessels is more accurate than the results of two state-of-the-art techniques on five subjects in terms of the average symmetric surface distance (ASSD) and modified Hausdorff distance (MHD). Furthermore, the proposed liver partitioning achieves large overlap with manual reference segmentations (expressed in Dice Coefficient) in all but a small minority of segments (mean values between 87% and 94% for segments 2-8). The lower mean overlap for segment 1 (72%) is due to the limited spatial resolution of our DCE-MR scan protocol.

Proceedings Article | 21 March 2016 Paper

Improved registration of DCE-MR images of the liver using a prior segmentation of the region of interest

Tian Zhang, Zhang Li, Jurgen Runge, Cristina Lavini, Jaap Stoker, Thomas van Gulik, Lucas van Vliet, Frans Vos

Proceedings Volume 9784, 978443 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216668

KEYWORDS: Liver, Image registration, Image segmentation, Magnetic resonance imaging, Abdomen, Image analysis, Data modeling, Arteries, Veins, Plasma, Defense technologies

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In Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) of the liver, a series of images is acquired over a period of 20 minutes. Due to the patient’s breathing, the liver is subject to a substantial displacement between acquisitions. Furthermore, due to its location in the abdomen, the liver also undergoes marked deformation. The large deformations combined with variation in image contrast make accurate liver registration challenging. We present a registration framework that incorporates a liver segmentation to improve the registration accuracy. The segmented liver serves as region-of-interest to our in-house developed registration method called ALOST (autocorrelation of local image structure). ALOST is a continuous optimization method that uses local phase features to overcome space-variant intensity distortions. The proposed framework can confine the solution field to the liver and allow for ALOST to obtain a more accurate solution. For the segmentation part, we use a level-set method to delineate the liver in a so-called contrast enhancement map. This map is obtained by computing the difference between the last and registered first volume from the DCE series. Subsequently, we slightly dilate the segmentation, and apply it as the mask to the other DCE-MRI volumes during registration. It is shown that the registration result becomes more accurate compared with the original ALOST approach.

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