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Automatic Mandible Segmentation on CT Images Using Prior Anatomical Knowledge

Aghdasi, Nava, Li, Yangming, Berens, Angelique, Moe, Kris, Hannaford, Blake
University of washington
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3545
New: Prefer using the following doi: https://doi.org/10.54294/n4k16a
Published in The MIDAS Journal - MICCAI 2015 Workshop: Head and Neck Auto Segmentation Challenge.
Submitted by Nava Aghdasi on 2016-03-14 20:43:38.

We present a fully automatic method for segmenting mandible in CT images using anatomic landmarks and prior knowledge. The aim is to utilize spatial relationship of anatomic landmarks with image processing techniques to detect mandible robustly and efficiently. Applying prior knowledge and reliable anatomical landmarks to define an optimal Region of Interest (ROI) which contains the mandible is an effective way for fast localization and successful segmentation. This approach can be used to segment other structures such as optic nerves by defining a new set of relevant landmarks. This approach is robust to CT data with different scanner setting and does not require large training data sets.