A COMPARISION OF MODEL-BASED METHODS FOR KNEE CARTILAGE SEGMENTATION

J. Cheong, N. Faggian, G. Langs, D. Suter, F. Cicuttini

2007

Abstract

Osteoarthritis is a chronic and crippling disease affecting an increasing number of people each year. With no known cure, it is expected to reach epidemic proportions in the near future. Accurate segmentation of knee cartilage from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans facilitates the measurement of cartilage volume present in a patient’s knee, thus enabling medical clinicians to detect the onset of osteoarthritis and also crucially, to study its effects. This paper compares four model-based segmentation methods popular for medical data segmentation, namely Active Shape Models (ASM) (Cootes et al., 1995), Active Appearance Models (AAM) (Cootes et al., 2001), Patch-based Active Appearance Models (PAAM) (Faggian et al., 2006), and Active Feature Models (AFM) (Langs et al., 2006). A comprehensive analysis of how accurately these methods segment human tibial cartilage is presented. The results obtained were benchmarked against the current “gold standard” (cartilage segmented manually by trained clinicians) and indicate that modeling local texture features around each landmark provides the best results for segmenting human tibial cartilage.

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Cheong J., Faggian N., Langs G., Suter D. and Cicuttini F. (2007). A COMPARISION OF MODEL-BASED METHODS FOR KNEE CARTILAGE SEGMENTATION . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-73-3, pages 290-295. DOI: 10.5220/0002050702900295


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp07,
author={J. Cheong and N. Faggian and G. Langs and D. Suter and F. Cicuttini},
title={A COMPARISION OF MODEL-BASED METHODS FOR KNEE CARTILAGE SEGMENTATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={290-295},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002050702900295},
isbn={978-972-8865-73-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,
TI - A COMPARISION OF MODEL-BASED METHODS FOR KNEE CARTILAGE SEGMENTATION
SN - 978-972-8865-73-3
AU - Cheong J.
AU - Faggian N.
AU - Langs G.
AU - Suter D.
AU - Cicuttini F.
PY - 2007
SP - 290
EP - 295
DO - 10.5220/0002050702900295