Automated measurement of anteroposterior diameter and foraminal widths in MRI images for lumbar spinal stenosis diagnosis

Natalia, Friska and Meidia, Hira and Afriliana, Nunik and Young, Julio Cristian and Yunus, Reyhan Eddy and Al-Jumaily, Mohammed and Al-Kafri, Ala and Sudirman, Sud (2020) Automated measurement of anteroposterior diameter and foraminal widths in MRI images for lumbar spinal stenosis diagnosis. PLoS ONE, 5 (11).

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Abstract

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis causes low back pain through pressures exerted on the spinal nerves. This can be verified by measuring the anteroposterior diameter and foraminal widths of the patient’s lumbar spine. Our goal is to develop a novel strategy for assessing the extent of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis by automatically calculating these distances from the patient’s lumbar spine MRI. Our method starts with a semantic segmentation of T1- and T2-weighted composite axial MRI images using SegNet that partitions the image into six regions of interest. They consist of three main regions-of-interest, namely the Intervertebral Disc, Posterior Element, and Thecal Sac, and three auxiliary regions-of-interest that includes the Area between Anterior and Posterior elements. A novel contour evolution algorithm is then applied to improve the accuracy of the segmentation results along important region boundaries. Nine anatomical landmarks on the image are located by delineating the region boundaries found in the segmented image before the anteroposterior diameter and foraminal widths can be measured. The performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated through a set of experiments on the Lumbar Spine MRI dataset containing MRI studies of 515 patients. These experiments compare the performance of our contour evolution algorithm with the Geodesic Active Contour and Chan-Vese methods over 22 different setups. We found that our method works best when our contour evolution algorithm is applied to improve the accuracy of both the label images used to train the SegNet model and the automatically segmented image. The average error of the calculated right and left foraminal distances relative to their expert-measured distances are 0.28 mm (p = 0.92) and 0.29 mm (p = 0.97), respectively. The average error of the calculated anteroposterior diameter relative to their expert-measured diameter is 0.90 mm (p = 0.92). The method also achieves 96.7% agreement with an expert opinion on determining the severity of the Intervertebral Disc herniations.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: 000 Computer Science, Information and General Works > 000 Computer Science, Knowledge and Systems > 005 Computer Programming
000 Computer Science, Information and General Works > 000 Computer Science, Knowledge and Systems > 006 Special Computer Methods
500 Science and Mathematic > 510 Mathematics > 519 Probabilities and Applied Mathematics
600 Technology (Applied Sciences) > 610 Medicine and Health > 612 Human Physiology
600 Technology (Applied Sciences) > 610 Medicine and Health > 617 Surgery, Regional Medicine, Dentistry, Ophthalmology, Otology, Audiology
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering & Informatics > Informatics
Depositing User: Administrator UMN Library
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2021 03:29
Last Modified: 06 Oct 2021 03:29
URI: https://kc.umn.ac.id/id/eprint/18550

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