Esophagus segmentation from 3D CT data using skeleton prior-based graph cut

DOI10.1155/2013/547897MaRDI QIDQ2262235zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Damien Grosgeorge, Caroline Petitjean, Bernard Dubray, Su Ruan

Publication date 16 March 2015

Published in Computational \& Mathematical Methods in Medicine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/547897

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

Review text

Summary: The segmentation of organs at risk in CT volumes is a prerequisite for radiotherapy treatment planning. In this paper, we focus on esophagus segmentation, a challenging application since the wall of the esophagus, made of muscle tissue, has very low contrast in CT images. We propose in this paper an original method to segment in thoracic CT scans the 3D esophagus using a skeleton-shape model to guide the segmentation. Our method is composed of two steps: a 3D segmentation by graph cut with skeleton prior, followed by a 2D propagation. Our method yields encouraging results over 6 patients.

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