A novel multi-atlas strategy with dense deformation field reconstruction for abdominal and thoracic multi-organ segmentation from computed tomography

Non-invasive clinical assessment of the inner body is usually performed through medical imaging. Imaging modalities, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT), are used to evaluate multiple organs through a full or partial body acquisition. However, because of the huge amount of data acquired, a correct 3D assessment of the target structures is difficult and time-consuming to obtain. Thus, a multitude of (semi-)automatic segmentation techniques were presented and validated in research (Heimann and Meinzer, 2009; Iglesias and Sabuncu, 2015; Jimenez-Del-Toro et al., 2016).
Source: Medical Image Analysis - Category: Radiology Authors: Source Type: research