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Numerical model of the pregnant woman based on
medical Images
Jérémie Anquez, Elsa Angelini, Isabelle Bloch (CNRS UMR 5141 LTCI, ENST Paris)
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Outline
1. EMFs influence on human body2. Pregnant woman model3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
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1. EMFs influence on human body
EMFs represent one of the most common and fastest growing
environmental influences, about which anxiety and speculation are spreading
Examples of FAQ on WHO website:
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1. EMFs influence on human body
The “International EMF Project” has been launched in 1996 to assess the scientific evidence of possible health
effects of EMF
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1. EMFs influence on human body
Different areas involved in the assessment of EMF influence on health
Biology (studies on cells, on animals…)Physics (measures on physical phantoms and numerical models)Mathematics/Informatics(elaboration of models)
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Equipment certification : phantoms are used for in situ Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) measurements. SAR is the rate at which RF energy is imparted to a
unit mass of a biological body
ρσ 2E.
SAR =ρ
E
σElectric field strength in the tissue
Conductivity of the tissue
Mass density of the tissue
1. EMFs influence on human body
(W.kg-1)
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1. EMFs influence on human body
Anthropomorphic models are used for simulated SAR measurements. Two different
kinds of models exist:
Stylized models
VS
Voxelized models
Advantages:
• Scalable
• Easy to morph
Drawbacks:
• Simplification of human
anatomy (shape,
variability…)
Advantages:
• Accurate representation
of human anatomy
Drawbacks:
• Patient dependant
• Difficult to morph
• Time consuming task
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Anthropomorphic models are used for simulated SAR measurements
1. EMFs influence on human body
SAR
E2
ρσ
Anthropomorphic
model
Simulated electric
field
ρσ 2E.
SAR =
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2. Pregnant woman modeling
• Pregnant woman models needed• Available models• Hybrid model description
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2. Pregnant woman modeling
1. Studies on EMF exposure of the adult
“Mobile Communications and Biology”, COMOBIO project [1999-2002]
2. Studies on EMF exposure of the children
“Dosimetric analysis of 3rd generation mobile phones ”, ADONIS project [2003-2006]
3. Studies on EMF exposure of the pregnant woman
WHO priority : need for adequate models
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Existing real-shaped phantom: abdomen composed of three layers, mother’s body,
amniotic fluid and fetus (Kawai [2005]).
2. Pregnant woman modeling
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Existing stylized models (Stabin [1995]; Kainz [2003])
Surface equations CAD model
2. Pregnant woman modeling
13Segmentation of CT data
Existing voxelized model (Cech [2005]; Xu [2004])
2. Pregnant woman modeling
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Uterus/Fetus model: coarse fetus model due to large spatial spacing in CT scan [Xu]
No detailed fetus models available
2. Pregnant woman modeling
Resolution :
1 x 1 x 10 mm3
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Designing the pregnant woman model from a whole-body acquisition is challenging
• Uterus pressure on patient’s cave vena
Need to assemble a hybrid model including:
• a Uterus/Fetus voxelized model (MRI, US)
• a stylized woman body (coarse body shape including skin, muscle and fat information)
2. Pregnant woman modeling
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Stylized
model
Voxelized
model
Hybrid model
2. Pregnant woman modeling
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Available data for uterus/fetus segmentation:• MRI data (Saint Vincent de Paul hospital): good
image quality but forbidden before 22 GW
• Ultrasound data (Philips Medical Systems): weak image quality but authorized anytime
Modalities used for differents gestational ages
Gestational
age (weeks)
Number of
Cases
40302010
US MRI
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Uterus/fetus segmentation based on MRI data (Cochin hospital partership)
• Large field of view
• Good overall contrast
• High resolution
MRI sequence requirements:
• Ultra-fast acquisition
• Little sensitivity to motion artifacts
3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Motion related artifacts
Coarse resolutionLow overall contrast
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
True FISP (Siemens) / Fiesta (GE) satisfies all requirements…
… but inhomogeneity correction needed
Slice
10/30
Slice
15/30
Slice
20/30
1
30
130
Resolution (mm3):
0.8 x 0.8 x 3
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Poor results using usual methods
• Brain inhomogeneity correction oriented
• User interaction needed (Dawant [1993])
• High computational cost (Zhang [2001])
• Parameters tuning needed (Mangin [2000])
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Segmentation using basic tools to study tissues intensity
Segmentation result 3D reconstruction
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Torso antenna generate a quasi parallel magnetic field
B1
Patient
Upper torso coil
Lower torso coil
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Tissues intensity mean and standard deviation trend in Z (slice acquisition direction)
Brain LungsUrinary
bladder
Intra-uterine
tissuesSame decreasing trend in Z
for every tissues : similar
trend for intra-uterine
tissues
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Hypothesis: • Intensity variation depends on Z only
• Same gray level distribution in any slice
Correction based on a surface fitting like method
kµ : kth slice mean
k
kji
kji
ss
µ,,'
,, =
Uterus
segmentation on
T2 Thick slab
Uterus extraction
on Fiesta data
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Inhomogeneity correction influence on intra-uterine tissues
Corrected dataOriginal data
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Inhomogeneity
correction
Corrected data
Original data
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Brain LungsUrinary
bladder
Inhomogeneity
correction
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
The standard deviation of the intensity in 3D is lessened in every tissue
Advantages: • Easy implementation
• Very fast
• Robust
Drawbacks: • Variations in X and Y not considered
• Gray level distribution of intra-uterine tissues is not strictly equal from one slice to another
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Starting point
• Sequential segmentation with anatomical spatial relationship
• Complex scene with many different structures
• Need for a starting point eyes
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Eyes characteristics
• High intensity and good contrast with surrounding tissues
• Spherical morphology
• Weak variability (diameter, number…)
• Small organ (Z resolution)
X
Y
Z
Y
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Eyes detection algorithm
• Binary objects extraction using thresholding and connex component
• Object list reduction considering the objects volume or surface
• Object pair detection computing a score based on shape and distance between objects
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Threshold consequences
Must be high enough to disconnect the eyes from close structures but not too high, not to exclude peripheral voxels, and to preserve the objects spherical shape
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Threshold consequences (2)
Even using the second mode value as threshold, connections to the brain remain in 3D because of partial volume effect
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Threshold consequences (3)• Disconnection with morphological opening spoils the object shape
• Partial volume artifact has no influence on center slice
Eye median slice localization
X
Y
Z
Y
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Threshold, object extraction & object list reduction
VVV *3.1*7.0 ≤≤ with zyxRV ∆∆∆Π= .)..).(( 2
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Best object pair extraction• Compactness computation for each object
( ) ( )( )2..4OiS
OiVOiC Π=
• Measure computation for each object pair, based on distance between objects center
)),((.)(.)(),( jijiji ccdOCOCOOS µ=
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Final result
Good results on 10 datasets
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Median sagittal plane reconstruction using the eyes
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Brain detection on median sagittal plane…
… using a close neighborhood
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
• Brain and spine segmentation to set fetus global position
• Segmentation of abdominal organs
• Segmentation of the head and the torso
• Challenging : segmentation of the limbs
Fetus
Uterus• Different objects to segment: placenta, amniotic fluid,
umbilical cord and uterus walls
Future works
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Uterus/fetus segmentation based on ultrasound data
3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Deformable model with statistical measures:
• Initialization
• Image-based information
• Implementation
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Segmentation of 3D ultrasound data
• Tool: 3D Slicer open source software (www.slicer.org)
• Segmentation based on basic operations: thresholding, manual contouring.
• Smoothing with mathematical morphology operators.
• Coarse segmentation: final model includes maternal tissues, amniotic fluid and fetal tissues
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
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Merge surface model segmented and image information to provide a good initialization
• Tool: Blender open source software (www.blender.org)
• Determine a set of visual landmarks corresponding to the key articulations in the data (neck, pelvis, elbow…).
• Morph the model’s articulations towards the landmarks
3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
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Fetus model positioning
3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Mesh morphing using Blender
with definition of an associated
armature
Posing the
armature
morphes mesh
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Deformable model with statistical measures
• Levelset-based method using a priori knowledge of statistical distribution of grey levels in ultrasound data
• To model gray level behavior of ultrasound images, the Rayleigh distribution is classically considered (Bovik [1988], Chesnaud [1999])
Preliminary work : validation of the Rayleigh distribution on the data
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
The Rayleigh distribution fits well when we consider the whole fetus…
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
…but the body and the head have really different distributions
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Exponential distribution suits better for maternal tissues…
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
…and perfectly for amniotic fluid intensities
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3. Uterus/Fetus segmentation
Preliminary studies using level set method based on those distributions are in progress
Segmentation
result
Original data
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• Implementation of an automatic detection of landmarks in data before morphing (head, spine, elbows, knees…) to initialize the model
• Validation of the statistic distributions observed, studying other data
• Evaluation of the method robustness at uterus/fetus interface
• Segmentation of fetal organs
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Future works
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Pregnant woman model generation
• Methodology to apply to merge the uterus/fetus model and the woman stylized model
• Merging of the uterus fetus/model in an existing woman voxelized model
• Model morphing (simulation of different positions)
• Dosimetric studies when the model is exposed to different EMF sources; utilization in different applications (car accidents, photon exposure…)
Conclusion
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QUESTIONS ?