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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2018

Juxta-Vascular Pulmonary Nodule Segmentation in PET-CT Imaging Based on an LBF Active Contour Model with Information Entropy and Joint Vector.

Rui Hao, Yan Qiang, Xiaofei Yan

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Rui HaoCollege of Information Management, Shanxi University of Finance & Economics, Taiyuan 030006, China.
Yan QiangCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5032-5028
Xiaofei YanCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China.

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The accurate segmentation of pulmonary nodules is an important preprocessing step in computer-aided diagnoses of lung cancers. However, the existing segmentation methods may cause the problem of edge leakage and cannot segment juxta-vascular pulmonary nodules accurately. To address this problem, a novel automatic segmentation method based on an LBF active contour model with information entropy and joint vector is proposed in this paper. Our method extracts the interest area of pulmonary nodules by a standard uptake value (SUV) in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images, and automatic threshold iteration is used to construct an initial contour roughly. The SUV information entropy and the gray-value joint vector of Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography (PET-CT) images are calculated to drive the evolution of contour curve. At the edge of pulmonary nodules, evolution will be stopped and accurate results of pulmonary nodule segmentation can be obtained. Experimental results show that our method can achieve 92.35% average dice similarity coefficient, 2.19 mm Hausdorff distance, and 3.33% false positive with the manual segmentation results. Compared with the existing methods, our proposed method that segments juxta-vascular pulmonary nodules in PET-CT images is more accurate and efficient.

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Positron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyRadiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-AssistedAlgorithmsEntropyFalse Positive ReactionsHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLungLung NeoplasmsModels, StatisticalProbabilityReproducibility of ResultsSoftwareSolitary Pulmonary NoduleTomography, X-Ray Computed

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