CT synthesis from MR images for orthopedic applications in the lower arm using a conditional generative adversarial network

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العنوان: CT synthesis from MR images for orthopedic applications in the lower arm using a conditional generative adversarial network
المؤلفون: Zijlstra, Frank, Willemsen, Koen, Florkow, Mateusz C., Sakkers, Ralph J. B., Weinans, Harrie H., van der Wal, Bart C. H., van Stralen, Marijn, Seevinck, Peter R.
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing
الوصف: Purpose: To assess the feasibility of deep learning-based high resolution synthetic CT generation from MRI scans of the lower arm for orthopedic applications. Methods: A conditional Generative Adversarial Network was trained to synthesize CT images from multi-echo MR images. A training set of MRI and CT scans of 9 ex vivo lower arms was acquired and the CT images were registered to the MRI images. Three-fold cross-validation was applied to generate independent results for the entire dataset. The synthetic CT images were quantitatively evaluated with the mean absolute error metric, and Dice similarity and surface to surface distance on cortical bone segmentations. Results: The mean absolute error was 63.5 HU on the overall tissue volume and 144.2 HU on the cortical bone. The mean Dice similarity of the cortical bone segmentations was 0.86. The average surface to surface distance between bone on real and synthetic CT was 0.48 mm. Qualitatively, the synthetic CT images corresponded well with the real CT scans and partially maintained high resolution structures in the trabecular bone. The bone segmentations on synthetic CT images showed some false positives on tendons, but the general shape of the bone was accurately reconstructed. Conclusions: This study demonstrates that high quality synthetic CT can be generated from MRI scans of the lower arm. The good correspondence of the bone segmentations demonstrates that synthetic CT could be competitive with real CT in applications that depend on such segmentations, such as planning of orthopedic surgery and 3D printing.
Comment: This work has been accepted at the SPIE Medical Imaging 2019, Image Processing conference, paper 10949-54
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08449
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1901.08449
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv