3D Shape-Weighted Level Set Method for Breast MRI 3D Tumor Segmentation

Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Chuin-Mu WangSheng-Chih Yang

Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) medical image segmentation is used to segment the target (a lesion or an organ) in 3D medical images. Through this process, 3D target information is obtained; hence, this technology is an important auxiliary tool for medical diagnosis. Although some methods have proved to be successful for two-dimensional (2D) image segmentation, their direct use in the 3D case has been unsatisfactory. To obtain more precise tumor segmentation results from 3D MR images, in this paper, we propose a method known as the 3D shape-weighted level set method (3D-SLSM). The proposed method first converts the LSM, which is superior with respect to 2D image segmentation, into a 3D algorithm that is suitable for overall calculations in 3D image models, and which improves the efficiency and accuracy of calculations. A 3D shape-weighted value is then added for each 3D-SLSM iterative process according to the changes in volume. Besides increasing the convergence rate and eliminating background noise, this shape-weighted value also brings the segmented contour closer to the actual tumor margins. To perform a quantitative analysis of 3D-SLSM and to examine its feasibility in clinical applications, we have divided our experiments into comp...Continue Reading

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