CN108805892A - Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma - Google Patents

Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma Download PDF

Info

Publication number
CN108805892A
CN108805892A CN201810558897.8A CN201810558897A CN108805892A CN 108805892 A CN108805892 A CN 108805892A CN 201810558897 A CN201810558897 A CN 201810558897A CN 108805892 A CN108805892 A CN 108805892A
Authority
CN
China
Prior art keywords
heterogeneous
distance
swimming
matrix
image
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Pending
Application number
CN201810558897.8A
Other languages
Chinese (zh)
Inventor
路利军
吕闻冰
马建华
冯前进
陈武凡
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Southern Medical University
Original Assignee
Southern Medical University
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Southern Medical University filed Critical Southern Medical University
Priority to CN201810558897.8A priority Critical patent/CN108805892A/en
Publication of CN108805892A publication Critical patent/CN108805892A/en
Pending legal-status Critical Current

Links

Classifications

    • GPHYSICS
    • G06COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06TIMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T7/00Image analysis
    • G06T7/10Segmentation; Edge detection
    • G06T7/136Segmentation; Edge detection involving thresholding
    • GPHYSICS
    • G06COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06TIMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T7/00Image analysis
    • G06T7/40Analysis of texture
    • G06T7/41Analysis of texture based on statistical description of texture
    • GPHYSICS
    • G06COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06TIMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T2207/00Indexing scheme for image analysis or image enhancement
    • G06T2207/30Subject of image; Context of image processing
    • G06T2207/30004Biomedical image processing
    • G06T2207/30096Tumor; Lesion

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Probability & Statistics with Applications (AREA)
  • Image Processing (AREA)

Abstract

The invention belongs to medical image analysis field, heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in specially a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma.The present invention includes:The PET/CT scan datas for obtaining patient, are converted into standard uptake value (SUV) image;Three-dimensional segmentation is carried out to Primary lesions of NPC;Sliding-model control is carried out to lesion, lesion builds 4 kinds of image group matrixes to treated, and considers 5 kinds of symmetry, Average Strategy, distance, neighborhood number and window width size parameter settings in matrix building process comprehensively;415 textural characteristics are extracted from the matrix built, in conjunction with 5 tradition SUV features to realize that heterogeneous the quantifying of intratumoral metabolism is portrayed.The information that the present invention is contained by fully excavating noninvasive PET image, the intratumoral metabolism for featuring nasopharyngeal carcinoma more fully hereinafter is heterogeneous, realizes that accurate nasopharyngeal carcinoma discriminating provides quantitative evaluation index for doctor.

Description

Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma
Technical field
The present invention relates to medical image analysis technical fields, and in particular to heterogeneous in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma Quantitative depicting method.
Background technology
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is that a kind of local characteristic being mainly in South China is sick, in every 100,000 people, up to 30 human hairs disease 。18F-FDG PET/CT have been widely used for the inspection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, however, since benign inflammatory disorders tissue generally also can table Reveal higher glucose uptake, image department doctor observes by the naked eye the metabolism degree of lesion and anatomic form cannot achieve tumor Interior quantifying for image-region of heterogeneity is portrayed.Therefore the discriminating of early stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma is easily interfered by inflammatory disorders, leads to specificity Less than 85%, the histopathology biopsy for still relying on wound is made a definite diagnosis.Textural characteristics are in the diagnosis of kinds cancer, curative effect Assessment and prognosis prediction etc. show its potential value.However, the prior art for texture matrix construction method compared with To be single, not comprehensively in view of the ginsengs such as symmetry, Average Strategy, distance, neighborhood number, window width size in matrix building process The influences of number setting significantly limit in tumor the heterogeneous adequacy quantitatively portrayed and comprehensive.Therefore, it fully excavates noninvasive The information that is contained of PET image, realize that heterogeneous quantifying is portrayed very necessary in nasopharynx carcinoma.
Invention content
In view of above-mentioned technical background, determine the purpose of the present invention is to provide heterogeneous in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma Measure depicting method.
The above-mentioned purpose of the present invention is realized by following technological means:
Quantitative depicting method heterogeneous in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma is provided, including:
(1) original image of the DICOM format of target object PET/CT scannings is obtained, and the original image is carried out pre- Processing;
(2) Primary lesions of NPC three-dimensional segmentation is carried out on standard uptake value image after treatment;
(3) SUV grayscale sliding-model controls are carried out to the three-dimensional lesion divided;And using many kinds of parameters setting structure texture Matrix;
(4) it from texture matrix texture feature extraction, carries out heterogeneity in tumor and quantitatively portrays.
Preferably, the original image of the DICOM format for obtaining target object PET/CT scannings, and to described original Image carries out pretreatment:It to PET image into row interpolation, is merged with CT image registrations, and uses formula (1) by PET activity figures Be converted to standard uptake value image:
Preferably, step (2) is specifically to use SUV>2.5 threshold value carries out initial segmentation, is then adjusted so as to again to the end 3D divide lesion.
Preferably, the SUV grayscale sliding-model controls in step (3), using formula (2):
Wherein, SUV (x) indicates that the standard uptake value of voxel x, B indicate discretization spacing, take 0.1, SUVDis(x) body is indicated Standard uptake value after plain x discretizations.
Preferably, texture matrix is built in step (3), specifically includes four kinds of matrixes, respectively gray level co-occurrence matrixes, gray scale Run-length matrix, gray areas dimension matrix and neighborhood difference matrix.
Preferably, three symmetry, Average Strategy and distance parameters, gray scale trip are included in gray level co-occurrence matrixes building process Include Average Strategy parameter in journey matrix building process, include neighborhood number parameter in gray areas dimension matrix building process, Include window width dimensional parameters in neighborhood difference matrix building process.
Preferably, many kinds of parameters setting that structure texture matrix uses, wherein symmetry are symmetrical and non-including constructing Symmetrical GLCM;Average Strategy is that the structure of GLCM or GLRLM includes being built respectively from 13 directions, then takes 13 sides again Further include considering that 13 directions only builds and obtain 1 GLCM or GLRLM simultaneously to being averaged for feature, when extraction feature without It is average;10 pixels that distance is set as 1,2,3 ... build GLCM in turn;Neighborhood number is set as 6,18,26 and then builds GLSZM;Window width is sized to 3,5,7,9,11 pixels and then builds NGTDM.
Preferably, texture feature extraction is 415 total, wherein comprising 338 GLCM features, 26 GLRLM features, 26 GLSZM features and 25 NGTDM features.
Preferably, the textural characteristics of extraction, specifically include:
26 GLCM features, including energy, entropy, poor entropy and entropy, variance and the difference of two squares and variance, maximum likelihood are right Than degree, non-similarity, homogeney, inverse difference moment, correlation, difference variance, autocorrelation, cluster conspicuousness, cluster shade, cluster Trend, information correlation amount 1, information correlation amount 2, inverse variance, standard inverse difference moment, standard unfavourable balance, and average 1, and average 2, Consistency;
13 GLRLM features, short distance of swimming enhancing, long distance of swimming enhancing, gray scale inhomogeneities, distance of swimming inhomogeneities, the distance of swimming hundred Point ratio, the enhancing of the low gray scale distance of swimming, high gray scale distance of swimming enhancing, the low grey level enhancement of the short distance of swimming, the short high grey level enhancement of the distance of swimming, the long distance of swimming are low Grey level enhancement, the long high grey level enhancement of the distance of swimming, gray variance, distance of swimming variance;
13 GLSZM features, zonule enhancing, big region enhancing, gray scale inhomogeneities, zone nonuniformity, region hundred Ratio, low gray level areas is divided to enhance, high gray areas enhances, the low grey level enhancement in zonule, the high grey level enhancement in zonule, and big region is low Grey level enhancement, the big high grey level enhancement in region, gray variance, Local Deviation;
5 NGTDM features, roughness, contrast, lengthy and tedious degree, complexity, intensity.
Present invention simultaneously provides method heterogeneous in nasopharynx carcinoma is quantitatively portrayed based on PET image in nasopharyngeal carcinoma judgement side The purposes in face.
Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method, can effectively realize in nasopharynx carcinoma in the PET image nasopharynx carcinoma of the present invention Heterogeneous quantifying is portrayed.The present invention considers symmetry in matrix building process comprehensively, Average Strategy, distance, neighborhood number, The influence of the parameter settings such as window width size enriches adequacy that PET image intratumoral metabolism heterogeneity is quantitatively portrayed and comprehensive. Realize that accurate nasopharyngeal carcinoma discriminating provides quantitative evaluation index for auxiliary doctor.
Description of the drawings
Using attached drawing, the present invention is further illustrated, but the content in attached drawing does not constitute any limit to the present invention System.
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of quantitative depicting method heterogeneous in PET image nasopharynx carcinoma of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram of heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in embodiment 1PET image nasopharynx carcinomas.
Specific implementation mode
The invention will be further described with the following Examples.
Embodiment 1.
Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma, as shown in Figure 1, including:
First step obtains the original image of the DICOM format of target object PET/CT scannings, and to the original image It is pre-processed.
Since PET image resolution ratio is relatively low, picture size is smaller, usually 128*128, and therefore, it is necessary to by DICOM format PET image into row interpolation, so that it is registrated fusion with CT images (512*512), cubic spline interpolation may be used.In order to obtain The standard uptake value respectively organized, it is also desirable to by what is rebuild, standard uptake value SUV figures are converted to by the activity figure of correction for attenuation Picture, the present invention, which adopts to original image pre-process, includes:To PET image into row interpolation, merged with CT image registrations, and use PET activity figures are converted to standard uptake value image by formula (1):
Second step carries out Primary lesions of NPC three-dimensional segmentation on standard uptake value image after treatment, specifically Using SUV>2.5 threshold value carries out initial segmentation, is then adjusted so as to 3D segmentation lesions to the end again.
Third step, build matrix before, in order to lifting matrixes structure speed, and also to so that different cases it Between be comparable, it is also necessary to unified grayscale sliding-model control is carried out to the lesion divided, to the three-dimensional lesion divided SUV grayscale sliding-model controls are carried out, then using many kinds of parameters setting structure texture matrix.
SUV grayscale sliding-model controls in step (3), using formula (2):
Wherein, SUV (x) indicates that the standard uptake value of voxel x, B indicate discretization spacing, take 0.1, SUVDis(x) body is indicated Standard uptake value after plain x discretizations.
It should be strongly noted that the building process of matrix considers symmetry, Average Strategy, distance, neighborhood comprehensively Number, the influence of the parameter settings such as window width size.
1. the structure of gray level co-occurrence matrixes (GLCM)
The element P (i, j) of gray level co-occurrence matrixes indicates that two gray scales are respectively i and j, and the voxel that distance is D is in direction θ The number of upper appearance.The structure of the matrix is related to the setting of three symmetry, Average Strategy and distance parameters.
1.1 symmetry
When the situation of the voxel pair on the only directions statistics θ, what is built is unsymmetrical matrix (being denoted as A), when simultaneously When counting the situation of voxel pair on the negative direction in the directions θ and the directions θ, what is built is symmetrical matrix (being denoted as S).
1.2 Average Strategy
If counting the voxel in three dimensions under 13 directions respectively to there is situation, it will obtain 13 matrixes, often A matrix carries out feature extraction respectively, and the feature that 13 directions obtain is averaged again later, to obtain final characteristic results (being denoted as 13).If counting the appearance situation of the voxel pair in three dimensions under 13 directions simultaneously, can only build to obtain One matrix directly extracts feature from the matrix, it is no longer necessary to carry out average (being denoted as 1).Two in comprehensive 1.1 and 1.2 Following 4 kinds of strategies can be obtained in a factor:1S, 1A, 13S and 13A, fixed range is 1 at this time.
1.3 distance
Different distance settings can obtain the texture information under different scale, and therefore, the present invention has chosen D=1 respectively, Distance setting when 2,3 ... 10 voxels are built as matrix, fixed policy is 1S at this time.
2. the structure of gray scale run-length matrix (GLRLM)
Element P (i, j) in gray scale run-length matrix indicates that on the θ of direction, the j voxel arranged adjacent that gray scale is i occurs Number.
2.1 Average Strategy
It is similar with the Average Strategy of gray level co-occurrence matrixes, can 13 gray scale run-length matrix be built from 13 directions respectively, then The feature extracted from this 13 matrixes is carried out average (being denoted as M13);The voxel arrangement feelings in 13 directions can also be considered simultaneously Condition obtains a matrix, therefrom extracts feature (being denoted as M1).
3. the structure of gray areas dimension matrix (GLSZM)
The element P (i, j) of gray areas dimension matrix indicates that in three dimensions, j gray scale is the voxel of i in N neighborhoods Under the conditions of the case where interconnecting the number that occurs.
3.1 neighborhood numbers
In two-dimensional space, in three dimensions, then there are 6 neighborhoods, 18 neighborhoods, 26 neighborhoods in 4 neighborhood of generally use or 8 neighborhoods. Therefore, the gray areas dimension matrix that the present invention is built considers neighborhood N=6,18,26 these three situations.
4. the structure of neighborhood difference matrix (NGTDM)
Neighborhood difference matrix is a column vector, and element P (i) is indicated in three dimensions, and fixed window width size is W, All gray scales are the summation of the difference of other all voxel mean values in the center voxel and window of i.
4.1 window width sizes
The selection of different window width sizes can embody difference of the voxel on different scale, therefore, what the present invention was built Gray areas dimension matrix be arranged window width size be W=3,5,7,9,11.
Texture matrix is built in step (3), specifically includes four kinds of matrixes, respectively gray level co-occurrence matrixes, gray scale distance of swimming square Battle array, gray areas dimension matrix and neighborhood difference matrix.In gray level co-occurrence matrixes building process comprising symmetry, Average Strategy and Three parameters of distance include Average Strategy parameter, gray areas dimension matrix building process in gray scale run-length matrix building process In include neighborhood number parameter, include window width dimensional parameters in neighborhood difference matrix building process.
In order to which the intratumoral metabolism for portraying lesion comprehensively is heterogeneous, the present invention is extracted 26* (4+9)=338 GLCM feature (4 kinds of strategies, 9 kinds of distances), 13*2=26 GLRLM feature (2 kinds of Average Strategies), 13*3=26 GLSZM features (3 kinds of neighbours Domain number) and 5*5=25 NGTDM feature (5 kinds of window width sizes), totally 415 features, specific as follows:
GLCM features (26):Energy, entropy, poor entropy and entropy, variance and the difference of two squares and variance, maximum likelihood, comparison Degree, non-similarity, homogeney, inverse difference moment, correlation, difference variance, autocorrelation cluster conspicuousness, cluster shade, and cluster becomes Gesture, information correlation amount 1, information correlation amount 2, inverse variance, standard inverse difference moment, standard unfavourable balance, and average 1, and average 2, one Cause property.
GLRLM features (13):Short distance of swimming enhancing, long distance of swimming enhancing, gray scale inhomogeneities, distance of swimming inhomogeneities, the distance of swimming Percentage, the enhancing of the low gray scale distance of swimming, high gray scale distance of swimming enhancing, the low grey level enhancement of the short distance of swimming, the short high grey level enhancement of the distance of swimming, the long distance of swimming Low grey level enhancement, the long high grey level enhancement of the distance of swimming, gray variance, distance of swimming variance.
GLSZM features (13):Zonule enhances, big region enhancing, gray scale inhomogeneities, zone nonuniformity, region Percentage, low gray level areas enhancing, high gray areas enhancing, the low grey level enhancement in zonule, the high grey level enhancement in zonule, big region Low grey level enhancement, the big high grey level enhancement in region, gray variance, Local Deviation.
NGTDM features (5):Roughness, contrast, lengthy and tedious degree, complexity, intensity.
Finally, it into four steps, from texture matrix texture feature extraction, carries out heterogeneity in tumor and quantitatively portrays.
Present invention simultaneously provides method heterogeneous in nasopharynx carcinoma is quantitatively portrayed based on PET image in nasopharyngeal carcinoma judgement side The purposes in face.
Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method, can effectively realize in nasopharynx carcinoma in the PET image nasopharynx carcinoma of the present invention Heterogeneous quantifying is portrayed.The present invention solves the effect of technical problem:Symmetry in matrix building process is considered comprehensively, it is average Strategy, distance, neighborhood number, the influence of the parameter settings such as window width size enrich PET image intratumoral metabolism heterogeneity and quantitatively carve The adequacy of picture and comprehensive.Realize that accurate nasopharyngeal carcinoma discriminating provides quantitative evaluation index for auxiliary doctor.
Embodiment 2.
Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma, as shown in Fig. 2, including the following steps.
The DICOM format PET image acquired is subjected to cubic spline interpolation first, and itself and CT image registrations are melted It closes, it is 512*512, voxel size 0.98*0.98*3 to obtain image size.PET activity figures are converted to using following formula Standard uptake value SUV images:
Then SUV is utilized>2.5 106 cases of threshold segmentation method combination manual adjustment method pair (nasopharyngeal carcinoma 69, Chronic nasopharyngitis 37) carry out lesion segmentation.
SUV grayscale sliding-model control (discrete interval takes SUV=0.1) is carried out as follows to the lesion divided:
Wherein, SUV (x) indicates that the standard uptake value of voxel x, B indicate that discretization spacing, value are set as 0.1, SUVDis(x) Indicate the standard uptake value after voxel x discretizations.
Then in the case of structure different parameters setting (symmetry, Average Strategy, distance, neighborhood number, window width size) Four kinds of texture matrixes.It is specific as follows:
1. the structure of gray level co-occurrence matrixes (GLCM)
The element P (i, j) of gray level co-occurrence matrixes indicates that two gray scales are respectively i and j, and the voxel that distance is D is in direction θ The number of upper appearance.The structure of the matrix is related to the setting of three symmetry, Average Strategy and distance parameters.
1.1 symmetry
When the situation of the voxel pair on the only directions statistics θ, what is built is unsymmetrical matrix (being denoted as A), when simultaneously When counting the situation of voxel pair on the negative direction in the directions θ and the directions θ, what is built is symmetrical matrix (being denoted as S).
1.2 Average Strategy
If counting the voxel in three dimensions under 13 directions respectively to there is situation, it will obtain 13 matrixes, often A matrix carries out feature extraction respectively, and the feature that 13 directions obtain is averaged again later, to obtain final characteristic results (being denoted as 13).If counting the appearance situation of the voxel pair in three dimensions under 13 directions simultaneously, can only build to obtain One matrix directly extracts feature from the matrix, it is no longer necessary to carry out average (being denoted as 1).Two in comprehensive 1.1 and 1.2 Following 4 kinds of strategies can be obtained in a factor:1S, 1A, 13S and 13A, fixed range is 1 at this time.
1.3 distance
Different distance settings can obtain the texture information under different scale, and therefore, the present invention has chosen D=1 respectively, Distance setting when 2,3 ..., 10 voxels are built as matrix, fixed policy is 1S at this time.
2. the structure of gray scale run-length matrix (GLRLM)
Element P (i, j) in gray scale run-length matrix indicates that on the θ of direction, the j voxel arranged adjacent that gray scale is i occurs Number.
2.1 Average Strategy
It is similar with the Average Strategy of gray level co-occurrence matrixes, can 13 gray scale run-length matrix be built from 13 directions respectively, then The feature extracted from this 13 matrixes is carried out average (being denoted as M13);The voxel arrangement feelings in 13 directions can also be considered simultaneously Condition obtains a matrix, therefrom extracts feature (being denoted as M1).
3. the structure of gray areas dimension matrix (GLSZM)
The element P (i, j) of gray areas dimension matrix indicates that in three dimensions, j gray scale is the voxel of i in N neighborhoods Under the conditions of the case where interconnecting the number that occurs.
3.1 neighborhood numbers
In two-dimensional space, in three dimensions, then there are 6 neighborhoods, 18 neighborhoods, 26 neighborhoods in 4 neighborhood of generally use or 8 neighborhoods. Therefore, the gray areas dimension matrix that the present invention is built considers neighborhood N=6,18,26 these three situations.
4. the structure of neighborhood difference matrix (NGTDM)
Neighborhood difference matrix is a column vector, and element P (i) is indicated in three dimensions, and fixed window width size is W, All gray scales are the summation of the difference of other all voxel mean values in the center voxel and window of i.
4.1 window width sizes
The selection of different window width sizes can embody difference of the voxel on different scale, therefore, what the present invention was built Gray areas dimension matrix considers window width size W=3,5,7,9,11 this five kinds of situations.
After having built matrix, then 5 traditional SUV features are extracted in the lesion before carrying out sliding-model control:SUV is most Big value, mean value, peak value (SUVmax, SUVmean, SUVpeak), volume (MATV), total glycolysis (TLG), from the square built 415 textural characteristics are extracted in battle array.Including 26* (4+9)=338 GLCM feature (4 kinds of strategies, 9 kinds of distances), 13*2=26 is a GLRLM features (2 kinds of Average Strategies), 13*3=26 GLSZM feature (3 kinds of neighborhood numbers) and 5*5=25 NGTDM feature (5 kinds of window width sizes), it is specific as follows:
GLCM features (26):Energy, entropy, poor entropy and entropy, variance and the difference of two squares and variance, maximum likelihood, comparison Degree, non-similarity, homogeney, inverse difference moment, correlation, difference variance, autocorrelation cluster conspicuousness, cluster shade, and cluster becomes Gesture, information correlation amount 1, information correlation amount 2, inverse variance, standard inverse difference moment, standard unfavourable balance, and average 1, and average 2, one Cause property.
GLRLM features (13):Short distance of swimming enhancing, long distance of swimming enhancing, gray scale inhomogeneities, distance of swimming inhomogeneities, the distance of swimming Percentage, the enhancing of the low gray scale distance of swimming, high gray scale distance of swimming enhancing, the low grey level enhancement of the short distance of swimming, the short high grey level enhancement of the distance of swimming, the long distance of swimming Low grey level enhancement, the long high grey level enhancement of the distance of swimming, gray variance, distance of swimming variance.
GLSZM features (13):Zonule enhances, big region enhancing, gray scale inhomogeneities, zone nonuniformity, region Percentage, low gray level areas enhancing, high gray areas enhancing, the low grey level enhancement in zonule, the high grey level enhancement in zonule, big region Low grey level enhancement, the big high grey level enhancement in region, gray variance, Local Deviation.
NGTDM features (5):Roughness, contrast, lengthy and tedious degree, complexity, intensity.
The feature extracted is imported into single factor test logistic one by one and returns grader, using leave one cross validation and AUC assesses classification results.AUC>0.80 thinks that this feature has preferable carving effect to heterogeneity in nasopharynx carcinoma.
Comparison of 1. textural characteristics of table with tradition SUV features to nasopharyngeal carcinoma and chronic nasopharyngitis's classification AUC
The I-IV phases:Include the nasopharyngeal carcinoma case (N=69) of all I-IV phases
The I-II phases:Only include the nasopharyngeal carcinoma case (N=22) of I-II phases.
Table 1 gives the comparison of the preferably several textural characteristics of classification performance and tradition SUV features, it is seen that textural characteristics pair The classification performance of I-II phase nasopharyngeal carcinoma is better than tradition SUV features (AUC=0.88-0.91vs0.72-0.88), can effectively realize Heterogeneous quantifying is portrayed in nasopharynx carcinoma.
Finally it should be noted that the above embodiments are merely illustrative of the technical solutions of the present invention rather than is protected to the present invention The limitation of range, although being explained in detail to the present invention with reference to preferred embodiment, those skilled in the art should manage Solution, technical scheme of the present invention can be modified or replaced equivalently, without departing from technical solution of the present invention essence and Range.

Claims (10)

1. heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma, which is characterized in that including:
(1) original image of the DICOM format of target object PET/CT scannings is obtained, and the original image is located in advance Reason;
(2) Primary lesions of NPC three-dimensional segmentation is carried out on standard uptake value image after treatment;
(3) SUV grayscale sliding-model controls are carried out to the three-dimensional lesion divided;And using many kinds of parameters setting structure texture moments Battle array;
(4) it from texture matrix texture feature extraction, carries out heterogeneity in tumor and quantitatively portrays.
2. heterogeneous quantitative depicting method, feature exist in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma according to claim 1 In, the original image of the DICOM format for obtaining target object PET/CT scannings, and the original image is located in advance Reason includes:It to PET image into row interpolation, is merged with CT image registrations, and PET activity figures is converted to by standard using formula (1) and are taken the photograph Value image:
3. heterogeneous quantitative depicting method, feature exist in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma according to claim 2 In step (2) is specifically to use SUV>2.5 threshold value carries out initial segmentation, is then adjusted so as to 3D segmentation lesions to the end again.
4. heterogeneous quantitative depicting method, feature exist in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma according to claim 3 In:SUV grayscale sliding-model controls in step (3), using formula (2):
Wherein, SUV (x) indicates that the standard uptake value of voxel x, B indicate discretization spacing, take 0.1, SUVDis(x) voxel x is indicated Standard uptake value after discretization.
5. heterogeneous quantitative depicting method, feature exist in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma according to claim 4 In:Texture matrix is built in step (3), specifically includes four kinds of matrixes, respectively gray level co-occurrence matrixes, gray scale run-length matrix, ash Spend area size's matrix and neighborhood difference matrix.
6. heterogeneous quantitative depicting method, feature exist in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma according to claim 5 In:It was built comprising three symmetry, Average Strategy and distance parameters, gray scale run-length matrix in gray level co-occurrence matrixes building process Include Average Strategy parameter in journey, includes neighborhood number parameter, neighborhood difference matrix in gray areas dimension matrix building process Include window width dimensional parameters in building process.
7. heterogeneous quantitative depicting method, feature exist in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma according to claim 6 In many kinds of parameters setting that structure texture matrix uses, wherein symmetry include constructing symmetrical and asymmetrical GLCM;It is flat Equal strategy is that the structure of GLCM or GLRLM includes being built respectively from 13 directions, then takes being averaged for 13 direction characters again, Further include considering that 13 directions are only built simultaneously to obtain 1 GLCM or GLRLM, without average when extracting feature;Distance setting Being 1,2,3 ..., 10 pixels build GLCM in turn;Neighborhood number is set as 6,18,26 and then builds GLSZM;Window width size is set It is set to 3,5,7,9,11 pixels and then builds NGTDM.
8. heterogeneous quantitative depicting method, feature exist in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma according to claim 6 It is 415 total in, texture feature extraction, wherein include 338 GLCM features, 26 GLRLM features, 26 GLSZM features with And 25 NGTDM features.
9. heterogeneous quantitative depicting method, feature exist in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma according to claim 8 In the textural characteristics of extraction specifically include:
26 GLCM features, including energy, entropy, poor entropy and entropy, variance and the difference of two squares and variance, maximum likelihood, comparison Degree, non-similarity, homogeney, inverse difference moment, correlation, difference variance, autocorrelation cluster conspicuousness, cluster shade, and cluster becomes Gesture, information correlation amount 1, information correlation amount 2, inverse variance, standard inverse difference moment, standard unfavourable balance, and average 1, and average 2, one Cause property;
13 GLRLM features, short distance of swimming enhancing, long distance of swimming enhancing, gray scale inhomogeneities, distance of swimming inhomogeneities, distance of swimming percentage, The enhancing of the low gray scale distance of swimming, high gray scale distance of swimming enhancing, the low grey level enhancement of the short distance of swimming, the short high grey level enhancement of the distance of swimming, the low gray scale of the long distance of swimming Enhancing, the long high grey level enhancement of the distance of swimming, gray variance, distance of swimming variance;
13 GLSZM features, zonule enhancing, big region enhancing, gray scale inhomogeneities, zone nonuniformity, area percentage, Low gray level areas enhances, the enhancing of high gray areas, the low grey level enhancement in zonule, the high grey level enhancement in zonule, the low gray scale in big region Enhancing, the big high grey level enhancement in region, gray variance, Local Deviation;
5 NGTDM features, roughness, contrast, lengthy and tedious degree, complexity, intensity.
10. quantitatively portraying purposes of the method heterogeneous in nasopharynx carcinoma in terms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma judgement, feature based on PET image Be, using quantitative depicting method heterogeneous in the PET image nasopharynx carcinoma as described in claim 1 to 9 any one into Row.
CN201810558897.8A 2018-06-01 2018-06-01 Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma Pending CN108805892A (en)

Priority Applications (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
CN201810558897.8A CN108805892A (en) 2018-06-01 2018-06-01 Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
CN201810558897.8A CN108805892A (en) 2018-06-01 2018-06-01 Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
CN108805892A true CN108805892A (en) 2018-11-13

Family

ID=64090337

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
CN201810558897.8A Pending CN108805892A (en) 2018-06-01 2018-06-01 Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma

Country Status (1)

Country Link
CN (1) CN108805892A (en)

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN109035208A (en) * 2018-06-29 2018-12-18 上海联影医疗科技有限公司 Recognition methods, device and the PET system in hypermetabolism region
CN111583217A (en) * 2020-04-30 2020-08-25 深圳开立生物医疗科技股份有限公司 Tumor ablation curative effect prediction method, device, equipment and computer medium
CN112750528A (en) * 2019-10-30 2021-05-04 中国医药大学附设医院 Computer-aided prediction system, method and computer program product for predicting characteristic parameters of a tumor
WO2022126581A1 (en) * 2020-12-18 2022-06-23 深圳先进技术研究院 Pet image reconstruction method and apparatus, and device
CN115661150A (en) * 2022-12-26 2023-01-31 武汉楚精灵医疗科技有限公司 Method and device for identifying nasopharyngeal cavity endoscope image abnormality

Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN101669828A (en) * 2009-09-24 2010-03-17 复旦大学 System for detecting pulmonary malignant tumour and benign protuberance based on PET/CT image texture characteristics
CN105653858A (en) * 2015-12-31 2016-06-08 中国科学院自动化研究所 Image omics based lesion tissue auxiliary prognosis system and method
CN106355023A (en) * 2016-08-31 2017-01-25 北京数字精准医疗科技有限公司 Open quantitative analysis method and system based on medical image
CN106530296A (en) * 2016-11-07 2017-03-22 首都医科大学 Lung detection method and device based on PET/CT image features

Patent Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN101669828A (en) * 2009-09-24 2010-03-17 复旦大学 System for detecting pulmonary malignant tumour and benign protuberance based on PET/CT image texture characteristics
CN105653858A (en) * 2015-12-31 2016-06-08 中国科学院自动化研究所 Image omics based lesion tissue auxiliary prognosis system and method
CN106355023A (en) * 2016-08-31 2017-01-25 北京数字精准医疗科技有限公司 Open quantitative analysis method and system based on medical image
CN106530296A (en) * 2016-11-07 2017-03-22 首都医科大学 Lung detection method and device based on PET/CT image features

Non-Patent Citations (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Title
LIJUN LU 等: ""Robustness of Radiomic Features in [11C]Choline and [18F]FDG PET/CT imaging of nasopharyngeal carcinoma:impact of segmentation and discretizaion "", 《MOLECULAR IMAGING AND BIOLOGY》 *
WENBING LV 等: ""Radiomics analysis of baseline 18F-FDG PET/CT images for improved prognosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma"", 《2018 IEEE 15TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING (ISBI 2018)》 *
WENBING LV 等: ""Robustness versus disease differentiation when varying parameter settings in radiomics features: application to nasopharyngeal PET/CT"", 《EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY》 *

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN109035208A (en) * 2018-06-29 2018-12-18 上海联影医疗科技有限公司 Recognition methods, device and the PET system in hypermetabolism region
CN112750528A (en) * 2019-10-30 2021-05-04 中国医药大学附设医院 Computer-aided prediction system, method and computer program product for predicting characteristic parameters of a tumor
CN111583217A (en) * 2020-04-30 2020-08-25 深圳开立生物医疗科技股份有限公司 Tumor ablation curative effect prediction method, device, equipment and computer medium
WO2022126581A1 (en) * 2020-12-18 2022-06-23 深圳先进技术研究院 Pet image reconstruction method and apparatus, and device
US12020351B2 (en) 2020-12-18 2024-06-25 Shenzhen Institutes Of Advanced Technology Method, device and equipment for reconstructing PET images
CN115661150A (en) * 2022-12-26 2023-01-31 武汉楚精灵医疗科技有限公司 Method and device for identifying nasopharyngeal cavity endoscope image abnormality

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
CN108805892A (en) Heterogeneous quantitative depicting method in a kind of PET image nasopharynx carcinoma
CN104380340B (en) Pixel is scored and adjusted based on neighborhood relationships to disclose the data in image
CN105389811B (en) A kind of multi-modality medical image processing method split based on multilevel threshold
Chen et al. Pathological lung segmentation in chest CT images based on improved random walker
CN106355552B (en) A kind of depth map top sampling method based on virtual viewpoint rendering quality
CN110298804A (en) One kind is based on generation confrontation network and the decoded medical image denoising method of 3D residual coding
Hasan A hybrid approach of using particle swarm optimization and volumetric active contour without edge for segmenting brain tumors in MRI scan
CN106991660B (en) The three dimensional ultrasonic image data methods of sampling decomposed based on modified Octree
Dawood et al. The importance of contrast enhancement in medical images analysis and diagnosis
Hamad et al. Segmentation and measurement of lung pathological changes for COVID-19 diagnosis based on computed tomography
CN104517315A (en) Method and system for reconstructing bilateral ureters based on interactive region growing method
Siddiqi et al. Investigation of histogram equalization filter for CT scan image enhancement
Talebpour et al. Automatic lung nodules detection in computed tomography images using nodule filtering and neural networks
Almi'ani et al. Automatic segmentation algorithm for brain MRA images
Liu et al. A practical PET/CT data visualization method with dual-threshold PET colorization and image fusion
Shimizu et al. Extension of automated melanoma screening for non-melanocytic skin lesions
CN109034256A (en) A kind of the tumor of breast detection system and method for LTP and HOG Fusion Features
Palani et al. Statistical analysis on impact of image preprocessing of CT texture patterns and its CT radiomic feature stability: a phantom study
Hill et al. Dynamic breast MRI: image registration and its impact on enhancement curve estimation
Cascio et al. Automated detection of lung nodules in low-dose computed tomography
CN112634470A (en) Three-dimensional threshold value stereo graph unfolding method
US20230351557A1 (en) Method and system for image enhancement
Qiang et al. Coarse-to-fine lung segmentation in computed tomography images
大矢めぐみ et al. Investigation of clinical target volume segmentation for whole breast irradiation using three-dimensional convolutional neural networks with gradient-weighted class activation mapping
Liu et al. Low-dose liver CT images segmentation and 3D reconstruction

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
PB01 Publication
PB01 Publication
SE01 Entry into force of request for substantive examination
SE01 Entry into force of request for substantive examination
RJ01 Rejection of invention patent application after publication

Application publication date: 20181113

RJ01 Rejection of invention patent application after publication