Rapid and Precise Orbit Segmentation through Interactive 3D Painting

• In this paper, we present an efficient interactive tool for segmenting and measuring the volume of the bony orbit (eye-socket) in computed tomography (CT) images. The tool implements a 3D painting interface that allows the user to quickly segment or "paint" the fat and soft-tissue content of the orbit by sweeping a volumetric brush over the image. The brush modifies and updates the segmentation result in real-time and takes distance and gradient information into account to fill out and find the exact boundaries of the orbit. A smooth and consistent delineation of the anterior boundary is obtained by fitting a thin-plate spline to user-selected landmarks. We evaluate the tool on 10 CT images of intact and fractured orbits and show that it achieves high intra- and inter-operator precision (mean spatial overlap 95%, less than 1 ml volume variability) and produces segmentation results that are similar to manually corrected reference segmentations, but only requires a few minutes of interaction time.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Medicinteknik -- Medicinsk bildbehandling (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Medical Engineering -- Medical Image Processing (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

interactive segmentation

volume rendering

computed tomography

orbit

Computerized Image Processing

Datoriserad bildbehandling

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