2024-03-29T01:00:58Zhttp://repisalud.isciii.es/oai/requestoai:repisalud.isciii.es:20.500.12105/65742022-11-11T10:35:08Zcom_20.500.12105_2152com_20.500.12105_2051com_20.500.12105_2144col_20.500.12105_2153
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Gordaliza, Pedro M
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Muñoz-Barrutia, Arrate
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Abella, Monica
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Desco, Manuel
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Sharpe, Sally
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Vaquero, Juan Jose
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2018
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that produces pulmonary damage. Radiological imaging is the preferred technique for the assessment of TB longitudinal course. Computer-assisted identification of biomarkers eases the work of the radiologist by providing a quantitative assessment of disease. Lung segmentation is the step before biomarker extraction. In this study, we present an automatic procedure that enables robust segmentation of damaged lungs that have lesions attached to the parenchyma and are affected by respiratory movement artifacts in a Mycobacterium Tuberculosis infection model. Its main steps are the extraction of the healthy lung tissue and the airway tree followed by elimination of the fuzzy boundaries. Its performance was compared with respect to a segmentation obtained using: (1) a semi-automatic tool and (2) an approach based on fuzzy connectedness. A consensus segmentation resulting from the majority voting of three experts' annotations was considered our ground truth. The proposed approach improves the overlap indicators (Dice similarity coefficient, 94\% +/- 4\%) and the surface similarity coefficients (Hausdorff distance, 8.64 mm +/- 7.36 mm) in the majority of the most difficult-to-segment slices. Results indicate that the refined lung segmentations generated could facilitate the extraction of meaningful quantitative data on disease burden.
Sci Rep. 2018; 8(1):9802
2045-2322
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/6574
29955159
10.1038/s41598-018-28100-x
Scientific Reports
DISEASE PROGRESSION
LATENT TUBERCULOSIS
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Unsupervised CT Lung Image Segmentation of a Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection Model