Liver Segmentation in Abdominal CT Images Using Probabilistic Atlas and Adaptive 3D Region Growing

Abstract

Automatic liver segmentation plays a vital role in computer-aided diagnosis or treatment. Manual segmentation of organs is a tedious and challenging task and is prone to human errors. In this paper, we propose innovative pre-processing and adaptive 3D region growing methods with subject-specific conditions. To obtain strong edges and high contrast, we propose effective contrast enhancement algorithm then we use the atlas intensity distribution of most probable voxels in probability maps along with location before designing conditions for our 3D region growing method. We also incorporate the organ boundary to restrict the region growing. We compare our method with the label fusion of 13 organs on state-of-the-art Deeds registration method and achieved Dice score of 92.56%.