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Simultaneous PET Restoration and PET/CT Co-Segmentation Using a Variational Method
L Li1 , W Lu2 , S Tan1*, (1) Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei,China (2) University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Presentations
TU-H-CAMPUS-IeP3-1 (Tuesday, August 2, 2016) 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Room: ePoster Theater
Purpose:
PET images are usually blurred due to the finite spatial resolution, while CT images suffer from low contrast. Segment a tumor from either a single PET or CT image is thus challenging. To make full use of the complementary information between PET and CT, we propose a novel variational method for simultaneous PET image restoration and PET/CT images co-segmentation.
Methods:
The proposed model was constructed based on the Γ-convergence approximation of Mumford-Shah (MS) segmentation model for PET/CT co-segmentation. Moreover, a PET de-blur process was integrated into the MS model to improve the segmentation accuracy. An interaction edge constraint term over the two modalities were specially designed to share the complementary information. The energy functional was iteratively optimized using an alternate minimization (AM) algorithm. The performance of the proposed method was validated on ten lung cancer cases and five esophageal cancer cases. The ground truth were manually delineated by an experienced radiation oncologist using the complementary visual features of PET and CT. The segmentation accuracy was evaluated by Dice similarity index (DSI) and volume error (VE).
Results:
The proposed method achieved an expected restoration result for PET image and satisfactory segmentation results for both PET and CT images. For lung cancer dataset, the average DSI (0.72) increased by 0.17 and 0.40 than single PET and CT segmentation. For esophageal cancer dataset, the average DSI (0.85) increased by 0.07 and 0.43 than single PET and CT segmentation.
Conclusion:
The proposed method took full advantage of the complementary information from PET and CT images.
Funding Support, Disclosures, and Conflict of Interest: This work was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute Grants R01CA172638. Shan Tan and Laquan Li were supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, under Grant Nos. 60971112 and 61375018.
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