Automatic prostate MR image segmentation with sparse label propagation and domain-specific manifold regularization

Shu Liao, Yaozong Gao, Yinghuan Shi, Ambereen Yousuf, Ibrahim Karademir, Aytekin Oto, Dinggang Shen

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Abstract

Automatic prostate segmentation in MR images plays an important role in prostate cancer diagnosis. However, there are two main challenges: (1) Large inter-subject prostate shape variations; (2) Inhomogeneous prostate appearance. To address these challenges, we propose a new hierarchical prostate MR segmentation method, with the main contributions lying in the following aspects: First, the most salient features are learnt from atlases based on a subclass discriminant analysis (SDA) method, which aims to find a discriminant feature subspace by simultaneously maximizing the inter-class distance and minimizing the intra-class variations. The projected features, instead of only voxel-wise intensity, will be served as anatomical signature of each voxel. Second, based on the projected features, a new multi-atlases sparse label fusion framework is proposed to estimate the prostate likelihood of each voxel in the target image from the coarse level. Third, a domain-specific semi-supervised manifold regularization method is proposed to incorporate the most reliable patient-specific information identified by the prostate likelihood map to refine the segmentation result from the fine level. Our method is evaluated on a T2 weighted prostate MR image dataset consisting of 66 patients and compared with two state-of-the-art segmentation methods. Experimental results show that our method consistently achieves the highest segmentation accuracies than other methods under comparison.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Processing in Medical Imaging - 23rd International Conference, IPMI 2013, Proceedings
Pages511-523
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013 Jul 12
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2013 - Asilomar, CA, United States
Duration: 2013 Jun 282013 Jul 3

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7917 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other23rd International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAsilomar, CA
Period13/6/2813/7/3

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Theoretical Computer Science

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