Vertebral corners detection on sagittal X-rays based on shape modelling, random forest classifiers and dedicated visual features
Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture
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2018Journal
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & VisualizationAbstract
Quantitative measurements of spine shape parameters on planar X-ray images is critical for clinical applications but remains tedious and with no fully-automated solution demonstrated on the whole spine. This study aims to limit manual input, while demonstrating precise vertebrae corners positioning and shape parameter measurements from sagittal radiographs of the cervical and lumbar regions, exploiting novel dedicated visual features and specialized classifiers. A database of manually annotated X-ray images is used to train specialized Random Forest classifiers for each spine regions and corner types. An original combination of local gradient characteristics, Haar-like features, and contextual features based on patch intensity and contrast is used as visual features. The proposed method is evaluated on 49 sagittal X-rays of asymptomatic and pathological subjects, from multiple imaging sites, and with a large age range (6 – 69 years old). Performance is first evaluated for positioning a 2D spine shape model, where precisely detected corners enable to adjust the model via an original multilinear statistical regression. Root-mean square errors (RMSE) of corners localization and vertebra orientations are reported, demonstrating state-of-the-art precision compared to existing methods, but with minimal manual input. The method is then evaluated for the extraction of additional vertebrae shape characteristics, such as centre positioning, endplate centres positioning and endplate length measures, rarely studied in previous literature. The proposed method enables, with minimal initialization, fast and precise individual vertebrae delineations on sagittal radiographs on normal and pathological cases, with a level of precision and robustness required for objective support for diagnosis and therapy decision making.
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