Automatic extraction of anatomical landmarks from medical image data: An evaluation of different methods

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Title:	Automatic extraction of anatomical landmarks from medical image data: An evaluation of different methods
Creators Name:	Seim, H., Kainmueller, D., Heller, M., Zachow, S. and Hege, H.C.
Abstract:	This work presents three different methods for automatic detection of anatomical landmarks in CT data, namely for the left and right anterior superior iliac spines and the pubic symphysis. The methods exhibit different degrees of generality in terms of portability to other anatomical landmarks and require a different amount of training data. The first method is problem-specific and is based on the convex hull of the pelvis. Method two is a more generic Approach based on a statistical shape model including the landmarks of interest for every training shape. With our third method we present the most generic approach, where only a small set of training landmarks is required. Those landmarks are transferred to the patient specific geometry based on Mean Value Coordinates (MVCs). The methods work on surfaces of the pelvis that need to be extracted beforehand. We perform this geometry reconstruction with our previously introduced fully automatic segmentation framework for the pelvic bones. With a focus on the accuracy of our novel MVC-based approach, we evaluate and compare our methods on 100 clinical CT datasets, for which gold standard landmarks were defined manually by multiple observers.
Keywords:	Biomedical Measurements, Anatomical Landmarks, Landmark Detection, CT
Title of Book:	2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro
ISBN:	978-1-4244-3931-7
Page Range:	538-541
Date:	2009
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193103

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