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Constructing a 4D murine cardiac micro-CT atlas for automated segmentation and phenotyping applications

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Clark, D; Badea, A; Johnson, GA; Badea, CT
Published in: Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
June 3, 2013

A number of investigators have demonstrated the potential of preclinical micro-CT in characterizing cardiovascular disease in mouse models. One major hurdle to advancing this approach is the extensive user interaction required to derive quantitative metrics from these 4D image arrays (space + time). In this work, we present: (1) a method for constructing an average anatomic cardiac atlas of the mouse based on 4D micro-CT images, (2) a fully automated approach for segmenting newly acquired cardiac data sets using the atlas, and (3) a quantitative characterization of atlasbased segmentation accuracy and consistency. Employing the deformable registration toolkit, ANTs, the construction of minimal deformation fields, and a novel adaptation of joint bilateral filtration, our atlas construction scheme was used to integrate 6, C57BL/6 cardiac micro-CT data sets, reducing the noise standard deviation from ~70 HU in the individual data sets to ~21 HU in the atlas data set. Using the segmentation tools in Atropos and our atlas-based segmentation, we were able to propagate manual labels to 5, C57BL/6 data sets not used in atlas construction. Average Dice coefficients and volume accuracies (respectively) over phases 1 (ventricular diastole), 3, and 5 (ventricular systole) of these 5 data sets were as follows: left ventricle, 0.96, 0.96; right ventricle, 0.89, 0.92; left atrium, 0.88, 0.89; right atrium, 0.86, 0.92; myocardium, 0.90, 0.94. Once the atlas was constructed and segmented, execution of the proposed automated segmentation scheme took ~6.5 hours per data set, versus more than 50 hours required for a manual segmentation. © 2013 SPIE.

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Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

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1605-7422

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June 3, 2013

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8669
 

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Clark, D., Badea, A., Johnson, G. A., & Badea, C. T. (2013). Constructing a 4D murine cardiac micro-CT atlas for automated segmentation and phenotyping applications. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 8669. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007043
Clark, D., A. Badea, G. A. Johnson, and C. T. Badea. “Constructing a 4D murine cardiac micro-CT atlas for automated segmentation and phenotyping applications.” Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE 8669 (June 3, 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007043.
Clark D, Badea A, Johnson GA, Badea CT. Constructing a 4D murine cardiac micro-CT atlas for automated segmentation and phenotyping applications. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. 2013 Jun 3;8669.
Clark, D., et al. “Constructing a 4D murine cardiac micro-CT atlas for automated segmentation and phenotyping applications.” Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 8669, June 2013. Scopus, doi:10.1117/12.2007043.
Clark D, Badea A, Johnson GA, Badea CT. Constructing a 4D murine cardiac micro-CT atlas for automated segmentation and phenotyping applications. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. 2013 Jun 3;8669.

Published In

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

DOI

ISSN

1605-7422

Publication Date

June 3, 2013

Volume

8669