Multi-channel MRI segmentation of eye structures and tumors using patient-specific features
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Abstract
Retinoblastoma and uveal melanoma are fast spreading eye tumors usually diagnosed by using 2D Fundus Image Photography (Fundus) and 2D Ultrasound (US). Diagnosis and treatment planning of such diseases often require additional complementary imaging to confirm the tumor extend via 3D Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). In this context, having automatic segmentations to estimate the size and the distribution of the pathological tissue would be advantageous towards tumor characterization. Until now, the alternative has been the manual delineation of eye structures, a rather time consuming and error-prone task, to be conducted in multiple MRI sequences simultaneously. This situation, and the lack of tools for accurate eye MRI analysis, reduces the interest in MRI beyond the qualitative evaluation of the optic nerve invasion and the confirmation of recurrent malignancies below calcified tumors. In this manuscript, we propose a new framework for the automatic segmentation of eye structures and ocular tumors in multi-sequence MRI. Our key contribution is the introduction of a pathological eye model from which Eye Patient-Specific Features (EPSF) can be computed. These features combine intensity and shape information of pathological tissue while embedded in healthy structures of the eye. We assess our work on a dataset of pathological patient eyes by computing the Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of the sclera, the cornea, the vitreous humor, the lens and the tumor. In addition, we quantitatively show the superior performance of our pathological eye model as compared to the segmentation obtained by using a healthy model (over 4% DSC) and demonstrate the relevance of our EPSF, which improve the final segmentation regardless of the classifier employed.
Date Issued
2017-03-28
Date Acceptance
2017-02-28
Citation
PLOS ONE, 2017, 12 (3)
ISSN
1932-6203
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PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE
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PLOS ONE
Volume
12
Issue
3
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2017
Ciller
et al. This is an open
access
article
distributed
under
the terms
of the
Creative
Commons
Attribution
License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/),
which
permits
unrestricte
d use, distribu
tion, and
reproduction
in any medium,
provided
the original
author
and source
are credited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
INTRAOCULAR TUMORS
SHAPE MODELS
RETINOBLASTOMA
DIAGNOSIS
THERAPY
BRAIN
General Science & Technology
MD Multidisciplinary
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN e0173900