Zhang Jun, Liu Mingxia, Wang Li, Chen Si, Yuan Peng, Li Jianfu, Shen Steve Guo-Fang, Tang Zhen, Chen Ken-Chung, Xia James J, Shen Dinggang
Department of Radiology and BRIC, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology, Beijing, China.
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2017 Sep;10434:720-728. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-66185-8_81. Epub 2017 Sep 4.
Generating accurate 3D models from cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images is an important step in developing treatment plans for patients with craniomaxillofacial (CMF) deformities. This process often involves bone segmentation and landmark digitization. Since anatomical landmarks generally lie on the boundaries of segmented bone regions, the tasks of bone segmentation and landmark digitization could be highly correlated. However, most existing methods simply treat them as two standalone tasks, without considering their inherent association. In addition, these methods usually ignore the spatial context information (, displacements from voxels to landmarks) in CBCT images. To this end, we propose a context-guided fully convolutional network (FCN) for joint bone segmentation and landmark digitization. Specifically, we first train an FCN to learn the to capture the spatial context information in CBCT images. Using the learned displacement maps as guidance information, we further develop a multi-task FCN to jointly perform bone segmentation and landmark digitization. Our method has been evaluated on 107 subjects from two centers, and the experimental results show that our method is superior to the state-of-the-art methods in both bone segmentation and landmark digitization.
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