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2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Marker-Controlled Watershed for Volume Countouring in PET Images
verfasst von : V. Naranjo, F. López-Mir, C. Marín, S. Morales, J. J. Fuertes, E. Villanueva
Erschienen in: XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013
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In this paper an automated method for volume contouring in PET images is presented. It is a slice-by-slice approach based on marker-controlled watershed segmentation applied to gradient image. A preprocessing step, based on geodesic transformations, is proposed to get a well defined boundary gradient of the region to be segmented (the tumour in our case), since the watershed results are improved. Moreover, a scheme of marker selection is proposed taking into account a priori segmentation knowledge from previous segmented slices. The method has been validated along with other 32 methods in a wide study [1] using phantom and real data. Regarding its degree of interactivity, our method obtained the highest accuracy results in patient’s data (
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* = 0.694) and similar results (
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* = 0.670) in the case of phantom’s data.