Segmentation of bone tumor in MR perfusion images using neural networks and multiscale pharmacokinetic features
M. Egmont-Petersen, Alejandro F Frangi, W. Niessen
Sep 3, 2000
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Proceedings 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. ICPR-2000
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: This study developed a neural network-based approach for segmenting bone tumors in MR perfusion images, using multiscale pharmacokinetic features and contextual information to better understand preoperative chemotherapy effects.
Abstract
The decrease in the volume of viable tumor is an indicator for the effect preoperative chemotherapy has on bone tumors. We develop an approach for segmenting dynamic perfusion MR-images into viable tumor, nonviable tumor and healthy tissue. Two cascaded feedforward neural networks are trained to perform the pixel-based segmentation. As features, we use the parameters obtained from a pharmacokinetic model of the tissue perfusion (parametric images). Additional multiscale features that incorporate contextual information are included. Experiments indicate that multiscale blurred versions of the parametric images together with a multiscale formulation of the local image entropy are the most discriminative features.