@inproceedings{4f791e7a7be74dd489fb88b2aa699b85,
title = "Patellar segmentation from 3D magnetic resonance images using guided recursive ray-tracing for edge pattern detection",
abstract = "The paper presents an automatic segmentation methodology for the patellar bone, based on 3D gradient recalled echo and gradient recalled echo with fat suppression magnetic resonance images. Constricted search space outlines are incorporated into recursive ray-tracing to segment the outer cortical bone. A statistical analysis based on the dependence of information in adjacent slices is used to limit the search in each image to between an outer and inner search region. A section based recursive ray-tracing mechanism is used to skip inner noise regions and detect the edge boundary. The proposed method achieves higher segmentation accuracy (0.23mm) than the current state-of-the-art methods with the average dice similarity coefficient of 96.0% (SD 1.3%) agreement between the auto-segmentation and ground truth surfaces.",
author = "Ruida Cheng and Jackson, {Jennifer N.} and McCreedy, {Evan S.} and William Gandler and Eijkenboom, {J. J.F.A.} and {Van Middelkoop}, M. and McAuliffe, {Matthew J.} and Sheehan, {Frances T.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 SPIE.; Medical Imaging 2016: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging ; Conference date: 01-03-2016 Through 03-03-2016",
year = "2016",
month = mar,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1117/12.2217232",
language = "English",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Barjor Gimi and Andrzej Krol",
booktitle = "Medical Imaging 2016",
address = "United States",
}