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Statistical Shape Model of the Liver and Its Application to Computer‐Aided Diagnosis of Liver Cirrhosis
Author(s) -
Uetani Mei,
Tateyama Tomoko,
Kohara Shinya,
Tanaka Hidetoshi,
Han XianHua,
Kanasaki Shuzo,
Furukawa Akira,
Chen YenWei
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
electrical engineering in japan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1520-6416
pISSN - 0424-7760
DOI - 10.1002/eej.22668
Subject(s) - principal component analysis , normalization (sociology) , linear discriminant analysis , pattern recognition (psychology) , artificial intelligence , shape analysis (program analysis) , active shape model , statistical model , cirrhosis , computer science , discriminant function analysis , mathematics , statistics , medicine , static analysis , segmentation , sociology , anthropology , programming language , gastroenterology
SUMMARY In recent years, there has been increasing interest in statistical shape modeling of human anatomy. The statistical shape model can capture the morphological variations of human anatomy. Since liver cirrhosis will cause significant morphological changes, the authors propose a computer‐aided diagnosis method for liver cirrhosis based on statistical shape models. In the proposed method, the authors first construct a statistical shape model of the liver using 50 clinical CT datasets (25 sets of normal data and 25 sets of abnormal data). The authors apply the marching cubes algorithm to convert the segmented liver volume to a triangulated mesh surface containing 1000 vertex points. The coordinates of these vertex points are used to represent the 3D liver shape as a shape vector. After normalization and identification of correspondences between all datasets, principal component analysis (PCA) is employed to find the principal variation modes of the shape vectors. Then the authors propose a mode selection method based on class variations between the normal class and abnormal class. The authors found that the top two modes of class variations are most effective for the classification of normal and abnormal livers. The classification rate of abnormal livers and normal livers by the use of a simple linear discriminant function were 84% and 80%, respectively.