Fully Automatic Lesion Segmentation in Breast MRI Using Mean-Shift and Graph-Cuts on a Region Adjacency Graph
Journal article, 2014

PurposeTo present and evaluate a fully automatic method for segmentation (i.e., detection and delineation) of suspicious tissue in breast MRI. Materials and MethodsThe method, based on mean-shift clustering and graph-cuts on a region adjacency graph, was developed and its parameters tuned using multimodal (T1, T2, DCE-MRI) clinical breast MRI data from 35 subjects (training data). It was then tested using two data sets. Test set 1 comprises data for 85 subjects (93 lesions) acquired using the same protocol and scanner system used to acquire the training data. Test set 2 comprises data for eight subjects (nine lesions) acquired using a similar protocol but a different vendor's scanner system. Each lesion was manually delineated in three-dimensions by an experienced breast radiographer to establish segmentation ground truth. The regions of interest identified by the method were compared with the ground truth and the detection and delineation accuracies quantitatively evaluated. ResultsOne hundred percent of the lesions were detected with a mean of 4.5 1.2 false positives per subject. This false-positive rate is nearly 50% better than previously reported for a fully automatic breast lesion detection system. The median Dice coefficient for Test set 1 was 0.76 (interquartile range, 0.17), and 0.75 (interquartile range, 0.16) for Test set 2. ConclusionThe results demonstrate the efficacy and accuracy of the proposed method as well as its potential for direct application across different MRI systems. It is (to the authors' knowledge) the first fully automatic method for breast lesion detection and delineation in breast MRI. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2014;39:795-804. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

IMAGE SEGMENTATION

mean-shift

automated segmentation

SELECTION

ENHANCEMENT

CONTRAST

suspicious lesion

image analysis

FRAMEWORK

graph-cuts

breast MRI

Author

D. McClymont

University of Queensland

Andrew Mehnert

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

A. Trakic

University of Queensland

D. Kennedy

Greenslopes Private Hospital

S. Crozier

University of Queensland

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

1053-1807 (ISSN) 1522-2586 (eISSN)

Vol. 39 4 795-804

Subject Categories

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging

DOI

10.1002/jmri.24229

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