Pituitary Adenoma Volumetry with 3D Slicer
| Title: | Pituitary Adenoma Volumetry with 3D Slicer |
| Author: |
Egger, Jan; Kapur, Tina; Nimsky, Christopher; Kikinis, Ron
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| Citation: | Egger, Jan, Tina Kapur, Christopher Nimsky, and Ron Kikinis. 2012. Pituitary adenoma volumetry with 3D slicer. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51788. |
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| Abstract: | In this study, we present pituitary adenoma volumetry using the free and open source medical image computing platform for biomedical research: (3D) Slicer. Volumetric changes in cerebral pathologies like pituitary adenomas are a critical factor in treatment decisions by physicians and in general the volume is acquired manually. Therefore, manual slice-by-slice segmentations in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, which have been obtained at regular intervals, are performed. In contrast to this manual time consuming slice-by-slice segmentation process Slicer is an alternative which can be significantly faster and less user intensive. In this contribution, we compare pure manual segmentations of ten pituitary adenomas with semi-automatic segmentations under Slicer. Thus, physicians drew the boundaries completely manually on a slice-by-slice basis and performed a Slicer-enhanced segmentation using the competitive region-growing based module of Slicer named GrowCut. Results showed that the time and user effort required for GrowCut-based segmentations were on average about thirty percent less than the pure manual segmentations. Furthermore, we calculated the Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) between the manual and the Slicer-based segmentations to proof that the two are comparable yielding an average DSC of 81.97±3.39%. |
| Published Version: | doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051788 |
| Other Sources: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519899/pdf/ |
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