Title
Measurement of pelvic osteolytic lesions in follow-up studies after total hip arthroplasty
Date Issued
30 June 2006
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Rochester
Abstract
Previous studies have demonstrated the plausibility of using volumetric computerized tomography to provide an accurate representation and measurement of volume for pelvic osteolytic lesions following total hip joint replacement. These studies have been performed manually (or computed-assisted) by expert radiologists with the disadvantage of poor reproducibility of the experiment. The purpose of this work is to minimize the effect of user interaction in these experiments by introducing Laplacian level set methods in the volume segmentation process and using temporal articulated registration in order to follow the evolution of a lesion over time. Laplacian level set methods reduce the inter and intra-observer variability by attaching the segmented contour to edges defined in the image while keeping smoothness. The registration process allows the information of the lesion from the first visit to be used in the segmentation process of the current visit. This work compares the automated results on 7 volunteers versus the volume measured manually. Results have shown that the proposed technique is able to track osteolytic lesions and detect changes in volume over time. Intra-reader and inter-observer variabilities were reduced.
Volume
6143 II
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Radiología, Medicina nuclear, Imágenes médicas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-33745385568
ISBN
0819461865
9780819461865
Source
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
ISSN of the container
16057422
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