Automatic and quantitative assessment of regional muscle volume by multi-atlas segmentation using whole-body water-fat MRI

作者：Karlsson Anette^*; Rosander Johannes; Romu Thobias; Tallberg Joakim; Gronqvist Anders; Borga Magnus; Leinhard Olof Dahlqvist

来源：Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2015, 41(6): 1558-1569.

DOI：10.1002/jmri.24726

• multi-atlas segmentation
• muscles
• registration
• muscle volume
• classification
• MRI

PurposeTo develop and demonstrate a rapid whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method for automatic quantification of total and regional skeletal muscle volume.
Materials and MethodsThe method was based on a multi-atlas segmentation of intensity corrected water-fat separated image volumes. Automatic lean muscle tissue segmentations were achieved by nonrigid registration of atlas datasets with 10 different manually segmented muscle groups. Ten subjects scanned at 1.5 T and 3.0 T were used as atlases, initial validation and optimization. Further validation used 11 subjects scanned at 3.0 T. The automated and manual segmentations were compared using intraclass correlation, true positive volume fractions, and delta volumes.
ResultsFor the 1.5 T datasets, the intraclass correlation, true positive volume fractions (meanstandard deviation, SD), and delta volumes (mean +/- SD) were 0.99, 0.91 +/- 0.02, -0.10 +/- 0.70L (whole body), 0.99, 0.93 +/- 0.02, 0.01 +/- 0.07L (left anterior thigh), and 0.98, 0.80 +/- 0.07, -0.08 +/- 0.15L (left abdomen). The corresponding values at 3.0 T were 0.97, 0.92 +/- 0.03, -0.17 +/- 1.37L (whole body), 0.99, 0.93 +/- 0.03, 0.03 +/- 0.08L (left anterior thigh), and 0.89, 0.90 +/- 0.04, -0.03 +/- 0.42L (left abdomen). The validation datasets showed similar results.
ConclusionThe method accurately quantified the whole-body skeletal muscle volume and the volume of separate muscle groups independent of field strength and image resolution. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2015;41:1558-1569.

• 出版日期2015-6