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3D Alpha Matting Based Co-segmentation of Tumors on PET-CT Images
Conference proceeding   Peer reviewed

3D Alpha Matting Based Co-segmentation of Tumors on PET-CT Images

Zisha Zhong, Yusung Kim, John Buatti and Xiaodong Wu
Molecular imaging, reconstruction and analysis of moving body organs, and stroke imaging and treatment : Fifth International Workshop, CMMI 2017, Second International Workshop, RAMBO 2017, and First International Workshop, SWITCH 2017, Vol.10555, pp.31-42
09/2017
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67564-0_4
PMCID: PMC6886662
PMID: 31799515

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Abstract

Positron emission tomography – computed tomography (PET-CT) has been widely used in modern cancer imaging. Accurate tumor delineation from PET and CT plays an important role in radiation therapy. The PET-CT co-segmentation technique, which makes use of advantages of both modalities, has achieved impressive performance for tumor delineation. In this work, we propose a novel 3D image matting based semi-automated co-segmentation method for tumor delineation on dual PET-CT scans. The “matte” values generated by 3D image matting are employed to compute the region costs for the graph based co-segmentation. Compared to previous PET-CT co-segmentation methods, our method is completely data-driven in the design of cost functions, thus using much less hyper-parameters in our segmentation model. Comparative experiments on 54 PET-CT scans of lung cancer patients demonstrated the effectiveness of our method.
Co-segmentation Image matting Image segmentation Interactive segmentation Lung tumor segmentation

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