Geodesic information flows

M. Jorge Cardoso, Robin Wolz, Marc Modat, Nick C. Fox, Daniel Rueckert, Sebastien Ourselin

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Abstract

Homogenising the availability of manually generated information in large databases has been a key challenge of medical imaging for many years. Due to the time consuming nature of manually segmenting, parcellating and localising landmarks in medical images, these sources of information tend to be scarce and limited to small, and sometimes morphologically similar, subsets of data. In this work we explore a new framework where these sources of information can be propagated to morphologically dissimilar images by diffusing and mapping the information through intermediate steps. The spatially variant data embedding uses the local morphology and intensity similarity between images to diffuse the information only between locally similar images. This framework can thus be used to propagate any information from any group of subject to every other subject in a database with great accuracy. Comparison to state-of-the-art propagation methods showed highly statistically significant (p < 10−4) improvements in accuracy when propagating both structural parcelations and brain segmentations geodesically.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI2012 - 15th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsGeorg Langs, Antonio Criminisi, Bjoern H. Menze, Bjoern H. Menze, Zhuowen Tu, Georg Langs, Nicholas Ayache, Hervé Delingette, Albert Montillo, Le Lu, Polina Golland, Kensaku Mori
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages262-270
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783642334177
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012 - Nice, France
Duration: 5 Oct 20125 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7511 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period5/10/125/10/12

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