@InProceedings{Supelec416,
author = {Beatrice Chevaillier and Damien Mandry and Yannick Ponvianne and Jean-Luc Collette and Michel Claudon and Olivier Pietquin},
title = {{Functional semi-automated segmentation of renal DCE-MRI sequences using a Growing Neural Gas algorithm}},
year = {2008},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO'08)}},
pages = {5 pages (Proceedings on CDROM)},
month = {August},
address = {Lausanne (Switzerland)},
url = {http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/Eusipco/Eusipco2008/papers/1569101736.pdf},
abstract = {In dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-
MRI), segmentation of internal kidney structures like cortex,
medulla and pelvo-caliceal cavities is necessary for functional
assessment. Manual segmentation by a radiologist is fairly
delicate because images are blurred and highly noisy. Moreover
the different compartments cannot be delineated on a single
image because they are not visible during the same perfusion
phase for physiological reasons. Nevertheless the differences
between temporal evolution of contrast in each anatomical
region can be used to perform functional segmentation. We
propose to test a semi-automated split and merge method based
on time-intensity curves of renal pixels. Its first step
requires a variant of the classical Growing Neural Gas
algorithm. In the absence of ground truth for results
assessment, a manual anatomical segmentation by a radiologist
is considered as a reference. Some discrepancy criteria are
computed between this segmentation and the functional one. As a
comparison, the same criteria are evaluated between the
reference and another manual segmentation.}
}