Semi-synthetic digital phantoms incorporating natural structured noise and boundary inhomogeneities

Sovira Tan; Michael M. Ward

doi:10.1117/12.770465

11 March 2008 Semi-synthetic digital phantoms incorporating natural structured noise and boundary inhomogeneities

Sovira Tan, Michael M. Ward

Proceedings Volume 6914, Medical Imaging 2008: Image Processing; 69144W (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.770465
Event: Medical Imaging, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Validating segmentation algorithms remains a difficult problem. Manual segmentation taken as gold standard is timeconsuming and can still be contentious especially in the case of complex 3D objects and in the presence of important partial volume effect (PVE). In contrast digital phantoms have well-defined built-in boundaries even when PVE is simulated. However their degree of realism is questionable. In particular the rich natural structures inside an object that constitute one of the most difficult obstacles to segmentation are to this day too complex to model. A new method for constructing semi-synthetic digital phantoms was recently proposed that incorporates natural structured noise and boundary inhomogeneities. However only one phantom was presented and validation was lacking. In the present work we constructed 5 phantoms of vertebral bodies. Validation of phantoms should test their ability to predict how an algorithm will perform when confronted to real data. Our phantoms were used to compare the performance of two level set based segmentation algorithms and find the parameters that optimize their performances. We validated the phantoms by correlating the results obtained on them with those obtained on 50 real vertebrae. We show that: 1) the phantoms accurately predict which segmentation algorithm will perform better with real clinical data. 2) by combining the results obtained by the 5 different phantoms we can extract useful predictions about the performance of different sets of parameters on real data. Because the phantoms possess the high variability of real data predictions based on only one phantom would fail.

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Sovira Tan and Michael M. Ward "Semi-synthetic digital phantoms incorporating natural structured noise and boundary inhomogeneities", Proc. SPIE 6914, Medical Imaging 2008: Image Processing, 69144W (11 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.770465

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Image segmentation

Phase modulation

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