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Hak Soo Kim1, Samuel B Park, Simon S Lo

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Area of Science:

  • Medical imaging analysis
  • Computational geometry
  • Biomedical engineering

Background:

  • Accurate quantification of local differences between contour surfaces is crucial for evaluating segmentation accuracy in 2D and 3D space.
  • Existing point-to-surface distance measures, such as normal distance (ND) and minimum distance (MD), have critical shortfalls due to their monodirectional characteristics, leading to erroneous results.
  • Methods like ComGrad struggle with complex geometries such as folds or concave contours.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a new, robust point-to-surface distance measure for accurate local quantification of differences between two contour surfaces in 2D and 3D space.
  • To address the limitations of existing distance measures that produce skewed or erroneous results in specific geometric conditions.

Main Methods:

  • A novel bidirectional local distance (BLD) measure is proposed, incorporating both forward and backward directional characteristics to minimize errors.
  • The BLD measure calculates the maximum value between the forward minimum distance (FMinD) and the backward maximum distance (BMaxD) at each point.
  • Validation involved testing BLD against ND and MD on 2D/3D artificial datasets and 3D patient data (liver and head-and-neck cancer).

Main Results:

  • The BLD measure successfully quantifies local distances between segmentations in scenarios where ND, MD, and ComGrad measures fail.
  • The standard deviation derived from BLD is not distorted by geometries that cause skewed results with ND, MD, and ComGrad.
  • BLD demonstrates superior performance in comparing complex contour surfaces.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed BLD measure offers more reliable statistics for contour comparisons, enabling the extraction of specific local and global distances.
  • Bidirectional local distance is a dependable and accurate method for comparing 2D and 3D organ segmentations.
  • This advancement improves the precision of quantitative analysis in medical image segmentation.