Multi-Slice Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition Based Multi-Atlas Segmentation: Application to Automatic Pathological Liver CT Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12056v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 04:09:39 GMT
• Title: Multi-Slice Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition Based Multi-Atlas Segmentation: Application to Automatic Pathological Liver CT Segmentation
• Authors: Changfa Shi, Min Xian, Xiancheng Zhou, Haotian Wang, Heng-Da Cheng
• Abstract summary: Liver segmentation from abdominal CT images is an essential step for liver cancer computer-aided diagnosis and surgical planning. Currently, the accuracy and robustness of existing liver segmentation methods cannot meet the requirements of clinical applications. We propose a novel low-rank tensor decomposition (LRTD) based multi-atlas segmentation (MAS) framework that achieves accurate and robust pathological liver segmentation of CT images.
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• Abstract: Liver segmentation from abdominal CT images is an essential step for liver cancer computer-aided diagnosis and surgical planning. However, both the accuracy and robustness of existing liver segmentation methods cannot meet the requirements of clinical applications. In particular, for the common clinical cases where the liver tissue contains major pathology, current segmentation methods show poor performance. In this paper, we propose a novel low-rank tensor decomposition (LRTD) based multi-atlas segmentation (MAS) framework that achieves accurate and robust pathological liver segmentation of CT images. Firstly, we propose a multi-slice LRTD scheme to recover the underlying low-rank structure embedded in 3D medical images. It performs the LRTD on small image segments consisting of multiple consecutive image slices. Then, we present an LRTD-based atlas construction method to generate tumor-free liver atlases that mitigates the performance degradation of liver segmentation due to the presence of tumors. Finally, we introduce an LRTD-based MAS algorithm to derive patient-specific liver atlases for each test image, and to achieve accurate pairwise image registration and label propagation. Extensive experiments on three public databases of pathological liver cases validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Both qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that, in the presence of major pathology, the proposed method is more accurate and robust than state-of-the-art methods.

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