MR Imaging is being increasingly used in radiation treatment planning as well as for staging and assessing tumor response. Leksell Gamma Knife (R) is a device for stereotactic neuro-radiosurgery to deal with inaccessible or insufficiently treated lesions with traditional surgery or radiotherapy. The target to be treated with radiation beams is currently contoured through slice-by-slice manual segmentation on MR images. This procedure is time consuming and operator-dependent. Segmentation result repeatability may be ensured only by using automatic/semi-automatic methods with the clinicians supporting the planning phase. In this paper a semi-automatic segmentation method, based on an unsupervised Fuzzy C-Means clustering technique, is proposed. The presented approach allows for the target segmentation and its volume calculation. Segmentation tests on 5 MRI series were performed, using both area-based and distance-based metrics. The following average values have been obtained: DS = 95.10, JC = 90.82, TPF = 95.86, FNF = 2.18, MAD = 0.302, MAXD = 1.260, H = 1.636.
Rundo, L., Militello, C., Vitabile, S., Russo, G., Pisciotta, P., Marletta, F., et al. (2016). Semi-automatic Brain Lesion Segmentation in Gamma Knife Treatments Using an Unsupervised Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Technique. In S. Bassis (a cura di), Advances in Neural Networks (pp. 15-26). SPRINGER [10.1007/978-3-319-33747-0_2].
Semi-automatic Brain Lesion Segmentation in Gamma Knife Treatments Using an Unsupervised Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Technique
VITABILE, Salvatore;MIDIRI, Massimo;
2016-01-01
Abstract
MR Imaging is being increasingly used in radiation treatment planning as well as for staging and assessing tumor response. Leksell Gamma Knife (R) is a device for stereotactic neuro-radiosurgery to deal with inaccessible or insufficiently treated lesions with traditional surgery or radiotherapy. The target to be treated with radiation beams is currently contoured through slice-by-slice manual segmentation on MR images. This procedure is time consuming and operator-dependent. Segmentation result repeatability may be ensured only by using automatic/semi-automatic methods with the clinicians supporting the planning phase. In this paper a semi-automatic segmentation method, based on an unsupervised Fuzzy C-Means clustering technique, is proposed. The presented approach allows for the target segmentation and its volume calculation. Segmentation tests on 5 MRI series were performed, using both area-based and distance-based metrics. The following average values have been obtained: DS = 95.10, JC = 90.82, TPF = 95.86, FNF = 2.18, MAD = 0.302, MAXD = 1.260, H = 1.636.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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