Knee Bone and Cartilage Segmentation Based on a 3D Deep Neural Network Using Adversarial Loss for Prior Shape Constraint

Hao Chen, Na Zhao, Tao Tan, Yan Kang, Chuanqi Sun, Guoxi Xie, Nico Verdonschot, André Sprengers

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Abstract

Fast and accurate segmentation of knee bone and cartilage on MRI images is becoming increasingly important in the orthopaedic area, as the segmentation is an essential prerequisite step to a patient-specific diagnosis, optimising implant design and preoperative and intraoperative planning. However, manual segmentation is time-intensive and subjected to inter- and intra-observer variations. Hence, in this study, a three-dimensional (3D) deep neural network using adversarial loss was proposed to automatically segment the knee bone in a resampled image volume in order to enlarge the contextual information and incorporate prior shape constraints. A restoration network was proposed to further improve the bone segmentation accuracy by restoring the bone segmentation back to the original resolution. A conventional U-Net-like network was used to segment the cartilage. The ultimate results were the combination of the bone and cartilage outcomes through post-processing. The quality of the proposed method was thoroughly assessed using various measures for the dataset from the Grand Challenge Segmentation of Knee Images 2010 (SKI10), together with a comparison with a baseline network U-Net. A fine-tuned U-Net-like network can achieve state-of-the-art results without any post-processing operations. This method achieved a total score higher than 76 in terms of the SKI10 validation dataset. This method showed to be robust to extract bone and cartilage masks from the MRI dataset, even for the pathological case.

Original languageEnglish
Article number792900
JournalFrontiers in Medicine
Volume9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 May 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • CNN
  • MRI
  • bone segmentation
  • cartilage segmentation
  • deep learning

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