Automatic Liver Segmentation from CT Images Using Single-Block Linear Detection.

Automatic liver segmentation not only plays an important role in the analysis of liver disease, but also reduces the cost and humanity’s impact in segmentation. In addition, liver segmentation is a very challenging task due to countless anatomical variations and technical difficulties. Many methods...

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Publicado en:BioMed Research International Vol. 2016; pp. 1 - 12
Autores principales: Huang, Lianfen, Weng, Minghui, Shuai, Haitao, Huang, Yue, Sun, Jianjun, Gao, Fenglian
Formato: algorithm diagnostic images equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 8/18/2016
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          Huang, Lianfen
          Weng, Minghui
          Shuai, Haitao
          Huang, Yue
          Sun, Jianjun
          Gao, Fenglian
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          Liver Radiography
          Tomography, X-Ray Computed Methods
          Automation
          Liver Diseases Diagnosis
          Human
          Algorithms
          Time Factors
          Hemangioma Diagnosis
          Liver Neoplasms Diagnosis
          Sensitivity and Specificity
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          Radiography, Abdominal
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      ab: Automatic liver segmentation not only plays an important role in the analysis of liver disease, but also reduces the cost and humanity’s impact in segmentation. In addition, liver segmentation is a very challenging task due to countless anatomical variations and technical difficulties. Many methods have been designed to overcome these challenges, but these methods still need to be improved to obtain the desired segmentation precision. In this paper, a fast algorithm is proposed for liver extraction from CT images with single-block linear detection. The proposed method does not require iteration; thus, the computational time and complexity are decreased enormously. In addition, the initialization is not crucial in the algorithm, so the algorithm’s robustness and specificity are improved. The experimental evaluation of the proposed method revealed effective segmentation in normal and abnormal (liver hemangioma and liver cancer) abdominal CT images. The average sensitivity, accuracy, and specificity for liver cancer are 96.59%, 98.65%, and 99.03%, respectively. The results of image segmentation approximate the manual segmentation results by the technical doctor. Moreover, our method shows superior flexibility to newly published method with comparable performance. The advantage of our method is verified with experimental results, which is described in detail.
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