Computer Aided Diagnosis: State-of-the-Art and Application to Musculoskeletal Diseases

Parascandolo, Patrizia; Cesario, Lorenzo; Vosilla, Loris; Viano, Gianni

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-6275-9_12

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“…The proposed approach is quite simple and can be easily integrated into current clinical workflows. In recent years, the trend of the research in the e-health field has moved towards the development of systems assembled as packages, associated with specific imaging modalities, such as CT, and MRI, and implemented as a part of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACSs) [46]. The patient-specific characterisation of the vertebral spine permits the evaluation of the health status of each patient by analysing the spine in terms of anatomical components, functional regions, and tissue status.…”

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“…The voxel intensities were normalised between 0 and 1, 0 being black and 1 being white. The clinical experts performed the semi-automatic segmentation of the bones with a region-growing method [3] supported by the CAD system RheumaSCORE [46]. Since the segmentation was performed by medical doctors, the segmented surfaces were considered the ground truth without applying further processing, such as smoothing and re-meshing.…”

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Three-Dimensional Anatomical Analysis of Muscle–Skeletal Districts

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This work addresses the patient-specific characterisation of the morphology and pathologies of muscle–skeletal districts (e.g., wrist, spine) to support diagnostic activities and follow-up exams through the integration of morphological and tissue information. We propose different methods for the integration of morphological information, retrieved from the geometrical analysis of 3D surface models, with tissue information extracted from volume images. For the qualitative and quantitative validation, we discuss the localisation of bone erosion sites on the wrists to monitor rheumatic diseases and the characterisation of the three functional regions of the spinal vertebrae to study the presence of osteoporotic fractures. The proposed approach supports the quantitative and visual evaluation of possible damages, surgery planning, and early diagnosis or follow-up studies. Finally, our analysis is general enough to be applied to different districts.

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“…The bone volumes have been segmented by medical experts with RheumaSCORE Software, implemented by Softeco Sismat srl (Genova, Italy) [8]. The segmentation method takes into account bone and erosion; areas of oedema are considered to belong to the bone tissue.…”

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Optimizing and Evaluating a Graph-Based Segmentation of MRI Wrist Bones

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In this paper, a quantitative evaluation of the graph-based segmentation method presented in a previous work is performed. The algorithm, starting from a single source element belonging to a region of interest, aims at finding the optimal path minimizing a new cost function for all elements of a digital volume. The method is an adaptive, unsupervised, and semi-automatic approach.For the assessment, a training phase and a testing phase are considered. The system is able to learn and adapt to the ground truth. The performance of the method is estimated by computing classical indices from the confusion matrix, similarity measures, and distance measures.Our work is based on the segmentation and 3D reconstructions of carpal bones derived from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) volumetric data of patients affected by rheumatic diseases.

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“…The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated by presenting both qualitative and quantitative results of wrist bones considering both normal and pathological RA cases. For this purpose, the tool is fully integrated in a CAD system named RheumaSCORE [19,20,21,22].…”

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Novel Automatic Tool for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Quantification of Bone Erosion Scoring in Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Vosilla

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic disease that affects the synovial joints. Currently, the gold standard measurement for tracking the progression of the disease involves a semi-quantitative assessment of bone erosion, bone marrow edema and synovitis, as seen in magnetic resonance images (MRI). The work presented in this paper identifies how computer automation can be used to quantify bone erosion volumes in MRI without expert and time consuming interventions. This tool is fully integrated in a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system named RheumaSCORE (Softeco Sismat Srl). Preliminary results of qualitative and quantitative validation are presented and discussed at the end of the paper.

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Computer Aided Diagnosis: State-of-the-Art and Application to Musculoskeletal Diseases

Cited by 9 publications

References 51 publications

Three-Dimensional Anatomical Analysis of Muscle–Skeletal Districts

Three-Dimensional Anatomical Analysis of Muscle–Skeletal Districts

Optimizing and Evaluating a Graph-Based Segmentation of MRI Wrist Bones

Novel Automatic Tool for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Quantification of Bone Erosion Scoring in Rheumatoid Arthritis

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