Pang Jianfei,Qiu Mingguo,Chen Wei,Liu Jie,Chen Yonglin.Segmenting articular cartilage automatically by edge detection and support vector machine[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2013,35(16):1653-1657.
Pang Jianfei,Qiu Mingguo,Chen Wei,Liu Jie,Chen Yonglin.Segmenting articular cartilage automatically by edge detection and support vector machine[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2013,35(16):1653-1657.DOI:
Segmenting articular cartilage automatically by edge detection and support vector machine
Objective To explore the possibilities of automatic segmentation of articular cartilage in the MR images. Methods Three binary classifiers were built with edge-distance
intensity and other voxel features using support vector machine to segment the femur cartilage
tibia cartilage and patellar cartilage separately. Firstly
an iterative procedure based on the feedback of the number of main edges was designed to get an appropriate threshold for Canny operator and extract the main edges with it from MRI images. Secondly
the different edges with some feature parameters were identified
which distinguished different cartilages synchronously. To improve the speed of segmentation
the search space was reduced according to the cartilage edge and its anatomic location. Thirdly
the cartilage tissues were segmented preliminarily with different trained classifiers. Finally
morphological operations were used to make those results better. Results The cartilage edge was smooth in automatic segmentation results and had a good consistency with manual segmentation results. The mean Dice similarity coefficient of femoral cartilage
tibial cartilage and patellar cartilage was 0.80
0.76 and 0.74
respectively. Conclusion The algorithm can segment the articular cartilage automatically from MR images more accurately and quickly.