CN106952273A - The dividing method and device of pancreas in medical image - Google Patents

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CN106952273A
CN106952273A CN201710138713.8A CN201710138713A CN106952273A CN 106952273 A CN106952273 A CN 106952273A CN 201710138713 A CN201710138713 A CN 201710138713A CN 106952273 A CN106952273 A CN 106952273A
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The invention discloses the dividing method and device of pancreas in a kind of medical image, it the described method comprises the following steps:The belly medical image of those who are investigated is obtained, and the belly medical image includes pancreas;Determine the area-of-interest for including pancreas tail end in belly medical image;Pancreas in area-of-interest is split on cross section, initial segmentation result is obtained;Since pancreas tail end, the part pancreas in initial segmentation result is split in sagittal plane, the start reference layer for the segmentation of the pancreas in belly medical image is obtained;From start reference layer respectively to pancreas head end and pancreas tail end, the pancreas in belly medical image is split in sagittal plane, the pancreas segmentation result in belly medical image is obtained.Methods and apparatus of the present invention can realize that pancreas is full-automatic, precisely split.

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The dividing method and device of pancreas in medical image
【Technical field】
The present invention relates to field of medical images, more particularly, to a kind of dividing method of pancreas in medical image.
【Background technology】
Computer aided radio therapy is one of three big therapies of current main flow, one of its successful treatment cancer substantially before It is to confirm knub position and size to carry, while protecting perilesional critical organ.Therefore, accurate high efficiency extraction critical organ profile It is the committed step of adaptive radiation therapy and surgical navigational etc. with Gross tumor volume (GTV, gross tumor volume), With very important Research Significance.Pancreas and liver, stomach, small intestine, spleen etc. it is in close relations, once one of swell Knurl is easy to occur tumor invasion etc., moreover, inherently a kind of grade malignancy of cancer of pancreas is very high, diagnosis and treatment are all highly difficult Malignant tumor of digestive tract.Therefore, for the patient that lesion occurs for belly, the accurate high efficiency extraction of pancreas is significant.Pancreas The diagnosis rate of gland cancer early stage is not high, and operative mortality rate is higher, and cure rate is very low.Because the span of pancreas is larger, and with surrounding Connected close, the picture contrast bottom around organ of histoorgan, different patient's pancreas sizes, differences in shape all very greatly, essence Accurate splitting will be especially difficult.
【The content of the invention】
The technical problems to be solved by the invention are to provide the dividing method and device of pancreas in a kind of medical image, and obtain The segmentation result taken has the higher degree of accuracy.
The present invention is for the technical scheme that uses of solution above-mentioned technical problem:The segmentation side of pancreas in a kind of medical image Method, it comprises the following steps:The belly medical image of those who are investigated is obtained, and the belly medical image includes pancreas;It is determined that The area-of-interest for including pancreas tail end in belly medical image;Pancreas in area-of-interest is divided on cross section Cut, obtain initial segmentation result;Since pancreas tail end, the part pancreas in initial segmentation result is divided in sagittal plane Cut, obtain the start reference layer for the segmentation of the pancreas in belly medical image;From start reference layer respectively to pancreas head end With pancreas tail end, the pancreas in belly medical image is split in sagittal plane, the pancreas in belly medical image is obtained Segmentation result.
Optionally, the area-of-interest only includes part pancreas, and the pancreas tail end is according in belly medical image Spleen positioning or manually locate.
Optionally, the part pancreas in area-of-interest is split on cross section, obtains initial segmentation knot Really, including:Pancreas in area-of-interest is successively split on cross section, several cross-sectional images are obtained;From cross-sectional view Connected domain to be selected is determined as in;Pancreas reference layer is determined in connected domain to be selected.
Optionally, it is described to determine connected domain to be selected from cross-sectional image, including:To the pancreas in area-of-interest Each cross-sectional image enters row threshold division, obtains the connected domain in the range of given threshold;Or/and remove close to cross section The connected domain of image top edge, lower edge or right hand edge;Or/and remove the connected domain that length-width ratio in cross-sectional image is less than 1.
Optionally, the determination pancreas reference layer in connected domain to be selected, including:Retain bag in connected domain to be selected The connected domain on the border containing Far Left, selects cross section most long connected domain from the connected domain of reservation.
Optionally, it is described since pancreas tail end, the part pancreas in initial segmentation result is divided in sagittal plane Cut, obtain the start reference layer for the segmentation of the pancreas in belly medical image, including:To the part in initial segmentation result Pancreas is successively split in sagittal plane, obtains segmentation result again;Retain in segmentation result again has friendship with initial segmentation result The connected domain of collection;The maximum connected domain of area is chosen from the connected domain for having common factor;To the boundary point of the maximum connected domain of area Number is counted, and is chosen border and is counted most connected domains as start reference layer.
Optionally, it is described from start reference layer respectively to pancreas head end and pancreas tail end, to the pancreas in belly medical image Gland is split in sagittal plane, including:Start reference layer is expanded to the coarse segmentation result after first size as current layer;System The histogram distribution of coarse segmentation result corresponding grey scale figure is counted, adding and subtracting twice of variance using the average of statistics is used as current layer pancreas Threshold range, the mark being not belonging in the threshold range is;The coarse segmentation result of current layer is expanded into the second size Afterwards as the area-of-interest of current layer pancreas;Centered on the center of gravity of coarse segmentation result, pancreas boundary point is traveled through with ray, is penetrated The place that line runs into dark areas is pancreas border, and the part without dark areas is left a blank, to part adjacent two border difference of leaving a blank, It is exactly the current layer pancreas segmentation result to obtain closed curve.
Optionally, also including being rotated to the belly medical image, and the belly medical image is rotated Angle be with horizontal line be in 15 ° -45 °, the medical image be 3D CT images or 3D MR images.
The present invention is for the technical scheme that uses of solution above-mentioned technical problem:The segmentation of pancreas in a kind of medical image Device, described device includes processor, and it includes:Image acquisition unit, the belly medical image for obtaining those who are investigated, and The belly medical image includes pancreas;Area-of-interest determining unit, for determining to include pancreas in belly medical image The area-of-interest of tail end;First cutting unit, for splitting to the pancreas in area-of-interest on cross section, is obtained Initial segmentation result;Second cutting unit, for since pancreas tail end, to the part pancreas in initial segmentation result in sagittal Split on face, obtain the start reference layer for the segmentation of the pancreas in belly medical image;From start reference layer respectively To pancreas head end and pancreas tail end, the pancreas in belly medical image is split in sagittal plane, belly medical science figure is obtained Pancreas segmentation result as in.
Optionally, the belly medical image is 3D CT images or 3D MR images, can be set by computer tomography Standby or MR imaging apparatus performs scanning to the belly for being scanned object and obtained.
Present invention contrast prior art has following beneficial effect:The present invention takes full advantage of arrow of the pancreas in medical image Shape face is continuous and adjacent layer changes slow knowledge, has used in medical image pancreas in cross section and the difference of sagittal plane Feature, is used respectively, and finally both direction information is carried out comprehensively, to make use of the dark space around pancreas on medical image Domain, operative constraint pancreas border can be achieved that pancreas is full-automatic, precisely segmentation.
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Technical scheme in order to illustrate more clearly the embodiments of the present invention, below will be attached to what is used needed for embodiment Figure is briefly described, it should be apparent that, drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, for this area For those of ordinary skill, without having to pay creative labor, it can also be obtained according to these accompanying drawings other attached Figure.
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the computer equipment of some embodiments of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the processor structure schematic diagram of the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 3 for the embodiment of the present invention a kind of medical image in pancreas segmentation method flow chart;
Fig. 4 is that belly medical image rotates forward and backward schematic diagram;
Fig. 5 is segmentation result of the pancreas on cross section in area-of-interest;
Fig. 6 is segmentation result of the pancreas in sagittal plane in area-of-interest;
Fig. 7 for the embodiment of the present invention medical image in pancreas segmentation result.
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In order to be better understood from technical scheme, the embodiment of the present invention is retouched in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings State.
It will be appreciated that described embodiment is only a part of embodiment of the invention, rather than whole embodiments.Base Embodiment in the present invention, those of ordinary skill in the art obtained under the premise of creative work is not made it is all its Its embodiment, belongs to the scope of protection of the invention.
The term used in embodiments of the present invention is the purpose only merely for description specific embodiment, and is not intended to be limiting The present invention." one kind ", " described " and "the" of singulative used in the embodiment of the present invention and appended claims It is also intended to including most forms, unless context clearly shows that other implications.
It should be appreciated that term "and/or" used herein is only a kind of incidence relation for describing affiliated partner, represent There may be three kinds of relations, for example, A and/or B, can be represented:Individualism A, while there is A and B, individualism B these three Situation.In addition, character "/" herein, it is a kind of relation of "or" to typically represent forward-backward correlation object.
Flow chart is used herein to be used for illustrating the operation performed by system according to an embodiment of the invention.It should manage Solution, before or operation below not necessarily accurately carry out in sequence.On the contrary, can handle each according to inverted order or simultaneously Plant step.It is also possible to which other operations are added to during these, or a certain step or number step behaviour are removed from these processes Make.
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the computer equipment of some embodiments of the invention.Computer 100 can be used to realize Implement the ad hoc approach and device disclosed in some embodiments of the invention.Specific device in the present embodiment utilizes functional block diagram exhibition A hardware platform for including display module is shown.In certain embodiments, computer 100 can be by its hardware device, soft Part program, firmware and combinations thereof realize the specific implementation of some embodiments of the invention.In certain embodiments, calculate Machine 100 can be the computer of a general purpose, or a computer for having a specific purpose.
As shown in figure 1, computer 100 can include internal communication bus 101, processor (processor) 102 is read-only Memory (ROM) 103, random access memory (RAM) 104, COM1 105, input output assembly 106, hard disk 107, with And user interface 108.Internal communication bus 101 can realize the data communication of the inter-module of computer 100.Processor 102 can be with Calculated, judged and sent prompting.In certain embodiments, processor 102 can be made up of one or more subelements, and It is respectively completed corresponding processing function.COM1 105 can realize computer 100 and miscellaneous part (not shown) example Such as:Enter row data communication between external equipment, image capture device, database, external storage and image processing workstations etc.. In certain embodiments, computer 100 can send and receive information and data by COM1 105 from network.Input/defeated The input/output data stream gone out between the support computer 100 of component 106 and miscellaneous part.User interface 108 can realize calculating Interaction and information between machine 100 and user are exchanged.Computer 100 can also include various forms of program storage units and Data storage element, such as hard disk 107, read-only storage (ROM) 103, random access memory (RAM) 104 can store meter The various data files that the processing of calculation machine and/or communication are used, and the possible programmed instruction performed by processor 102.
As shown in figure 1, processor 102 includes image data acquisition unit 1021, area-of-interest determining unit 1022, the One cutting unit 1023 and the second cutting unit 1024.Image data acquisition unit 1021 is adopted with image processing workstations or image Collect equipment connection, the belly medical image for obtaining those who are investigated, and the belly medical image includes pancreas.Region of interest Domain determining unit 1022 is connected with image data acquisition unit 1021, for automatically determining to include pancreas in belly medical image The area-of-interest of gland tail end.First cutting unit (cross section cutting unit) 1023 connects with area-of-interest determining unit 1022 Connect, for splitting to the part pancreas in area-of-interest on cross section, obtain initial segmentation result.Second segmentation is single First (sagittal plane cutting unit) 1024 is connected with the first cutting unit 1023, for existing to the part pancreas in initial segmentation result Split in sagittal plane, obtain the start reference layer for the segmentation of the pancreas in belly medical image;Then from starting ginseng Layer is examined respectively to pancreas head end and pancreas tail end, carries out (fine) segmentation in sagittal plane to the pancreas in belly medical image, Obtain the pancreas segmentation result in belly medical image.
Alternatively, processor 102 can be specialized application integrated circuit (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), dedicated instruction processor (Application Specific Instruction Set Processor, ASIP), concurrent physical processor (Physics Processing Unit, PPU), digital signal processor (Digital Processing Processor, DSP), field programmable gate array (Field-Programmable Gate Array, FPGA), one kind or several in PLD (Programmable Logic Device, PLD) etc. The combination planted, for performing the segmentation to pancreas in medical image.
Fig. 3 be some embodiments of the invention medical image in pancreas dividing method flow chart.Referring to Fig. 3, perform Step S21, obtains the belly medical image of those who are investigated, and the belly medical image includes pancreas;Step S22 is performed, really Determine the area-of-interest for including pancreas tail end in belly medical image;Step 23 is performed, to the part pancreas in area-of-interest Gland is split on cross section, obtains initial segmentation result;Step 24 is performed, since pancreas tail end, to initial segmentation knot Part pancreas in fruit carries out (thick) segmentation in sagittal plane, obtains the starting of the segmentation for the pancreas in belly medical image Reference layer;Step 25 is performed, from start reference layer respectively to pancreas head end and pancreas tail end, to the pancreas in belly medical image (fine) segmentation is carried out in sagittal plane, the pancreas segmentation result in belly medical image is obtained.
The belly medical image is 3D CT images or 3D MR images, can by computer tomography equipment (CT) or The image capture devices such as person's MR imaging apparatus (MR) perform scanning to the belly for being scanned object and obtained, can also be from The view data obtained with image capture device is stored in data storage cell.The belly medical image includes pancreas, spleen Dirty, liver and kidney and other organs information.
For the ease of the segmentation to image, belly medical image can be pre-processed, be had based on pancreas unique special Property, it is elongated, extend since spleen to liver direction, and extension trend somewhat compares inclined;And utilize pancreas This characteristic, the torsion of certain angle is done to belly medical image, makes pancreas in image by horizontal pendulum position or substantially water Yaw position.Optionally, the angle rotated to the belly medical image is in 15 ° -45 ° with horizontal line.The present invention is implemented The anglec of rotation used is in 30 ° with horizontal line in example.By taking a patient data as an example, Fig. 4 is that the rotation of belly medical image is forward and backward Schematic diagram.
The area-of-interest only includes part pancreas (since the part pancreas section pancreas tail end), and the cauda pancreatis Hold the spleen positioning in belly medical image or manually locate.For example, can be done based on spleen information one it is less There is one section of pancreas in frame constituency (bounding box), the frame favored area, and include pancreas tail end.Input module can also be passed through (such as mouse) directly determines above-mentioned frame favored area.
The step S23 is split on cross section to the part pancreas in area-of-interest, obtains initial segmentation knot Really, including following sub-step:
Step S231, successively splits to the part pancreas in area-of-interest on cross section, obtains several cross-sectional views Picture;
Step S232, determines connected domain to be selected from cross-sectional image;
Step S233, determines pancreas reference layer in connected domain to be selected.
In the step S232, threshold value is carried out to each cross-sectional image of the part pancreas in area-of-interest first Segmentation, obtains the connected domain in the range of given threshold.Need first to determine the tonal range where pancreas, CT images in the present invention Middle pancreas parameter (CT values) range of definition is 0-80HU (Hounsfield Unit).The mark that gray scale is not belonging to the scope is Region, Threshold segmentation result removes liver,spleen,kidney part.It (is, for example, less than 150mm that next, which removes area especially small,2), or remove On image, the connected domain of lower edge or right hand edge;Again connected domain length-width ratio be less than 1 and connected domain circularity it is small Also remove in 0.6 very rough.
Pancreas middle part connects together with stomach sometimes, and usual pancreas afterbody farther out, is split with other tissue distances Accurately, therefore, pancreas width is determined from pancreas afterbody.If pancreas width occurs more than 30mm, ginseng is used as using most long a line Examine, retain the row each 15mm up and down scope, the wide position can be modified.
In the step S233, because pancreas area-of-interest is blocked from right to left, left boundary part is necessarily wrapped Containing pancreas, so, retain the connected domain for including Far Left border in segmentation result, cross section is selected from the connected domain of reservation most Long connected domain.Segmentation result of the pancreas on cross section such as Fig. 5 in area-of-interest.
The step S24 is divided the part pancreas in initial segmentation result since pancreas tail end in sagittal plane Cut, obtain for the segmentation of the pancreas in belly medical image start reference layer;Including following sub-step:
S241, is successively split to the part pancreas in initial segmentation result in sagittal plane, obtains segmentation result again;
S242, retains the connected domain for having common factor in segmentation result again with initial segmentation result;
S243, chooses the maximum connected domain of area from the connected domain for having common factor;
S244, the border points to the maximum connected domain of area are counted, and choose the connected domains work for counting most in border For start reference layer.
In step S241, according to the continuity features of pancreas in sagittal plane, one layer is first looked in sagittal plane as reference layer, Then successively split.1/3rd of current connected domain lateral length is taken to do new pancreas region of interest ROI from pancreas tail end, Pancreas segmentation is done in the ROI and determines reference layer.In sagittal plane to pancreas Threshold segmentation scope it is 10- in the embodiment of the present invention 80HU.Since pancreas tail end, Threshold segmentation is done in sagittal plane, the mark for being not belonging to the threshold range is, and does Morphologic closed operation, kernel function is the disk that yardstick is 3;Obtain the segmentation result again in each (individual) corresponding sagittal plane.Point Segmentation method is similar in cross section segmentation to foregoing pancreas, will not be described here.
In step S242, for the segmentation result again in each corresponding sagittal plane, including one or several corresponding (the Two) connected domain, retains one or several connected domains having common factor in segmentation result with initial segmentation result again.
In step S243, it is performed according to step S242 in the several connected domains obtained afterwards, selects the correspondence sagittal plane On the maximum connected domain of area again in segmentation result.
In step S244, after terminating in new pancreas region of interest ROI in sagittal plane to all layers of pancreas segmentation, Mask borders are taken to count most one layers as start reference layer.
Step S25, including (essence) segmentation first is carried out to start reference layer, after to from start reference layer respectively to pancreas head end With pancreas tail end, (essence) segmentation is carried out in sagittal plane to the pancreas in belly medical image.
Further, step S25 carries out (essence) segmentation to start reference layer, comprises the following steps:
Step S251, first size is expanded (such as on the basis of the border of start reference layer, upward by start reference layer Extend 2mm) after as current layer coarse segmentation result;
Count the histogram distribution of coarse segmentation result corresponding grey scale figure, using the average of statistics add and subtract twice of variance as The threshold range of current layer (start reference layer) pancreas, the mark being not belonging in the threshold range is;
The coarse segmentation result of current layer is expanded into the region of interest after the second size (such as 5mm) as current layer pancreas Domain;
Centered on the center of gravity of coarse segmentation result, with 360 ° of traversal pancreas boundary points of ray, ray runs into the ground of dark areas Side is pancreas border, and the part without dark areas leaves a blank, and to part of leaving a blank with adjacent two interpolating on sides, obtaining closed curve is exactly The current layer pancreas segmentation result.Segmentation result of the pancreas on cross section such as Fig. 6 in new area-of-interest.
Further, step S25 is split to the pancreas in addition to start reference layer, comprises the following steps:
Successively split to pancreas two from start reference layer, when dark areas or reference layer area are less than 15mm2, or currently Layer pancreas area is less than 0.3 times of pancreas area before ten layers, then direction segmentation is just terminated.If both direction all splits completion simultaneously And the pancreas total length being partitioned into is less than 120mm, then finds out a ginseng from current segmentation result again according to step S24 methods Layer is examined, then second of pancreas fine segmentation is done according to step S25.The segmentation result of whole pancreas is finally given, such as Fig. 7 institutes Show.
The present invention can be automatically positioned out cauda pancreatis using metastable position relationship between pancreas tail end and spleen End.Pancreas be lying in posterior wall of abdomen this anatomical structure of silkworm shape body of gland so that pancreas in the sagittal plane of CT images adjacent layer it Between be continuous, and because CT images generally resolution ratio in sagittal plane and coronal-plane is higher, adjacent interlayer difference Very little, can carry out integrated application to both direction information.The present invention just precisely efficiently realizes pancreas using these features Full-automatic dividing.
It should be noted that through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can be understood that Part or all of to the application can be realized by software and the required general hardware platform of combination.Understood based on such, The part that the technical scheme of the application substantially contributes to prior art in other words can be embodied in the form of software product Out, the computer software product may include the one or more machine readable medias for being stored thereon with machine-executable instruction, These instructions may be such that this when being performed by one or more machines such as computer, computer network or other electronic equipments One or more machine embodiments in accordance with the present invention perform operation.Machine readable media may include, but be not limited to, floppy disk, CD, CD-ROM (compact-disc-read-only storage), magneto-optic disk, ROM (read-only storage), RAM (random access memory), EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory EPROM), EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Read Only Memory), magnetic or optical card, sudden strain of a muscle Deposit or other kinds of medium/machine readable media suitable for storage machine-executable instruction.
The application can be used in numerous general or special purpose computing system environments or configuration.For example:Personal computer, service Device computer, handheld device or portable set, laptop device, multicomputer system, the system based on microprocessor, top set Box, programmable consumer-elcetronics devices, network PC, minicom, mainframe computer including any of the above system or equipment DCE etc..
The application can be described in the general context of computer executable instructions, such as program Module.Usually, program module includes execution particular task or the routine for realizing particular abstract data type, program, object, group Part, data structure etc..The application can also be put into practice in a distributed computing environment, in these DCEs, by Remote processing devices connected by communication network perform task.In a distributed computing environment, program module can be with Positioned at including in the local and remote computer-readable storage medium including storage device.
The main advantage of the present invention is to be automatically positioned out pancreas tail end using spleen information, while using between adjacent layer Continuity and pancreas around low gray level areas, realize full-automatic dividing successively.Pancreas in the medical image of the present invention The segmentation of gland is full automatic.The present invention takes full advantage of that pancreas is continuous in the sagittal plane of CT images and adjacent layer change is slow Slow knowledge.The present invention has used pancreas in CT images in cross section and the different characteristic of sagittal plane, to be used respectively, finally Both direction information is carried out comprehensive.Patent of the present invention takes full advantage of the dark areas around pancreas, operative constraint on CT images Pancreas border.
Although the present invention is disclosed as above with preferred embodiment, so it is not limited to the present invention, any this area skill Art personnel, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, when a little modification can be made and perfect, therefore the protection model of the present invention Enclose when by being defined that claims are defined.

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1. the dividing method of pancreas in a kind of medical image, it is characterised in that comprise the following steps:
The belly medical image of those who are investigated is obtained, and the belly medical image includes pancreas;
Determine the area-of-interest for including pancreas tail end in belly medical image;
Pancreas in area-of-interest is split on cross section, initial segmentation result is obtained;
Since pancreas tail end, the part pancreas in initial segmentation result is split in sagittal plane, obtained for belly The start reference layer of the segmentation of pancreas in medical image;
From start reference layer respectively to pancreas head end and pancreas tail end, the pancreas in belly medical image is carried out in sagittal plane Segmentation, obtains the pancreas segmentation result in belly medical image.
2. the dividing method of pancreas in medical image according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the area-of-interest is only Comprising part pancreas, and spleen positioning of the pancreas tail end in belly medical image or manually locate.
3. the dividing method of pancreas in medical image according to claim 1, it is characterised in that described to area-of-interest In part pancreas split on cross section, obtain initial segmentation result, including:
Pancreas in area-of-interest is successively split on cross section, several cross-sectional images are obtained;
Connected domain to be selected is determined from cross-sectional image;
Pancreas reference layer is determined in connected domain to be selected.
4. the dividing method of pancreas in medical image according to claim 3, it is characterised in that described from cross-sectional image In determine connected domain to be selected, including:Row threshold division is entered to each cross-sectional image of the pancreas in area-of-interest, obtained Take the connected domain in the range of given threshold;Or/and remove the connection of close cross-sectional image top edge, lower edge or right hand edge Domain;Or/and remove the connected domain that length-width ratio in cross-sectional image is less than 1.
5. the dividing method of pancreas in medical image according to claim 3, it is characterised in that described to treat selection connection Pancreas reference layer is determined in domain, including:Retain the connected domain for including Far Left border in connected domain to be selected, from the company of reservation Cross section most long connected domain is selected in logical domain.
6. the dividing method of pancreas in medical image according to claim 1, it is characterised in that described to be opened from pancreas tail end Begin, the part pancreas in initial segmentation result is split in sagittal plane, obtained for the pancreas in belly medical image Segmentation start reference layer, including:
Part pancreas in initial segmentation result is successively split in sagittal plane, segmentation result again is obtained;
Retain the connected domain for having common factor in segmentation result again with initial segmentation result;
The maximum connected domain of area is chosen from the connected domain for having common factor;
Border points to the maximum connected domain of area are counted, and are chosen the most connected domains of border points and are used as start reference Layer.
7. the dividing method of pancreas in medical image according to claim 1, it is characterised in that described from start reference layer Respectively to pancreas head end and pancreas tail end, the pancreas in belly medical image is split in sagittal plane, including:
Start reference layer is expanded to the coarse segmentation result after first size as current layer;
The histogram distribution of coarse segmentation result corresponding grey scale figure is counted, twice of variance is added and subtracted as current using the average of statistics The threshold range of layer pancreas, the mark being not belonging in the threshold range is;
The coarse segmentation result of current layer is expanded into the area-of-interest after the second size as current layer pancreas;
Centered on the center of gravity of coarse segmentation result, pancreas boundary point is traveled through with ray, the place that ray runs into dark areas is pancreas Border, the part without dark areas is left a blank, and to part adjacent two border difference of leaving a blank, it is exactly the current layer to obtain closed curve Pancreas segmentation result.
8. the dividing method of pancreas in medical image according to claim 1, it is characterised in that also including to the belly Medical image is rotated, and the angle rotated to the belly medical image is in 15 ° -45 °, the doctor with horizontal line It is 3D CT images or 3D MR images to learn image.
9. a kind of device of the segmentation of pancreas in medical image, described device includes processor, it is characterised in that the processor Including:
Image acquisition unit, the belly medical image for obtaining those who are investigated, and the belly medical image include pancreas;
Area-of-interest determining unit, for determining the area-of-interest for including pancreas tail end in belly medical image;
First cutting unit, for splitting to the pancreas in area-of-interest on cross section, obtains initial segmentation result;
Second cutting unit, for since pancreas tail end, being carried out to the part pancreas in initial segmentation result in sagittal plane Segmentation, obtains the start reference layer for the segmentation of the pancreas in belly medical image;From start reference layer respectively to caput pancreatis End and pancreas tail end, split to the pancreas in belly medical image in sagittal plane, obtain the pancreas in belly medical image Gland segmentation result.
10. the segmenting device of pancreas in medical image according to claim 9, it is characterised in that the belly medical science figure , can be by computer tomography equipment or MR imaging apparatus to scanned pair as being 3D CT images or 3D MR images The belly of elephant performs scanning and obtained.
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