Carotid artery wall segmentation in multispectral MRI by coupled optimal surface graph cuts

TY - JOUR

T1 - Carotid artery wall segmentation in multispectral MRI by coupled optimal surface graph cuts

AU - Arias-Lorza, Andrés M.

AU - Petersen, Jens

AU - van Engelen, Arna

AU - Selwaness, Mariana

AU - van der Lugt, Aad

AU - J. Niessen, Wiro

AU - de Bruijne, Marleen

PY - 2016/3

Y1 - 2016/3

N2 - We present a new three-dimensional coupled optimal surface graph-cut algorithm to segment the wall of the carotid artery bifurcation from Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. The method combines the search for both inner and outer borders into a single graph cut and uses cost functions that integrate information from multiple sequences. Our approach requires manual localization of only three seed points indicating the start and end points of the segmentation in the internal, external, and common carotid artery. We performed a quantitative validation using images of 57 carotid arteries. Dice overlap of 0.86 \pm 0.06 for the complete vessel and 0.89 pm 0.05 for the lumen compared to manual annotation were obtained. Reproducibility tests were performed in 60 scans acquired with an interval of 15 \pm 9 days, showing good agreement between baseline and follow-up segmentations with intraclass correlations of 0.96 and 0.74 for the lumen and complete vessel volumes respectively.

AB - We present a new three-dimensional coupled optimal surface graph-cut algorithm to segment the wall of the carotid artery bifurcation from Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. The method combines the search for both inner and outer borders into a single graph cut and uses cost functions that integrate information from multiple sequences. Our approach requires manual localization of only three seed points indicating the start and end points of the segmentation in the internal, external, and common carotid artery. We performed a quantitative validation using images of 57 carotid arteries. Dice overlap of 0.86 \pm 0.06 for the complete vessel and 0.89 pm 0.05 for the lumen compared to manual annotation were obtained. Reproducibility tests were performed in 60 scans acquired with an interval of 15 \pm 9 days, showing good agreement between baseline and follow-up segmentations with intraclass correlations of 0.96 and 0.74 for the lumen and complete vessel volumes respectively.

U2 - 10.1109/TMI.2015.2501751

DO - 10.1109/TMI.2015.2501751

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 26595912

SN - 0278-0062

VL - 35

SP - 901

EP - 911

JO - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

JF - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

IS - 3

ER -