White Matter Lesion Segmentation Tutorial

NA-MIC

National Alliance for Medical Image Computing

http://na-mic.org

White Matter Lesion Segmentation

Minjeong Kim, Dinggang Shen

UNC Chapel Hill

Xiaodong Tao, Jim Miller

GE Research

mjkim@med.unc.edu

NA-MIC Tutorial Contest: Summer 2010

Learning Objective

Learn how to run “White Matter Lesion

Segmentation” module in Slicer 3.

Pre-requisite

• Data Loading and Visualization (Sonia

Pujol, Ph.D.)

– http://www.na-

mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Slicer3.2:Training

Material

• This tutorial requires Slicer3.6 (release

version) and the tutorial dataset. They are

available at the following locations:

• Slicer3.6 download page http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads/

• Tutorial dataset: http://wiki.na-

mic.org/Wiki/index.php/File:White_Matter_Lesion_Segmenta

tion_TutorialContestSummer2010.zip

Disclaimer: It is the responsibility of the user of Slicer to comply with both the terms

of the license and with the applicable laws, regulations, and rules.

Input: N training images (T1, T2, PD, FLAIR, lesion ROI)

Material: Sample Data

• Training data

Input: testing image (T1, T2, PD, FLAIR)

Material: Sample Data

• Testing data

Platform

• This tutorial has tested on a Linux

(64 bit) machine.

Overview

• Introduction

• Getting started

• Pipeline 1 - Training & Segmentation

• Pipeline 2 - Preprocessing, Training,

and Segmentation

• Conclusion

Introduction

• Learning based WML segmentation

Lao, Shen, et al., "Computer-Assisted Segmentation of White Matter Lesions in 3D MR

images Using Support Vector Machine", Academic Radiology, 15(3):300-313, 2008.

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• SVM To train a WML segmentation classifier.

• Adaboost To adaptively weight the training samples and

improve the generalization of WML segmentation method.

Neighborhood Ω (5x5x5mm) T1

PD FLAIR

Lesion voxel

Overview

• Introduction

• Getting started

and Segmentation

• Conclusion

Getting started

• Module installation

• Press F2 or go to View >> Application

Settings >> Module Settings on the

menu of Slicer3.

• Click the “add a preset” button.

• Select the location of the White Matter

Lesion Segmentation modules

(wmlstrain and wmlstest).

• Close Slicer3 and restart.

• Execution

Select “White Matter

Lesion Segmentation

Training” for Training,

“White Matter Lesion

Segmentation” for

Segmentation

Overview

• Introduction

• Getting started

• Pipeline 1 - Training &

Segmentation only

and Segmentation

• Conclusion

Pipeline 1 (w/o Preprocessing)

• In case your images are already

preprocessed…

Training

Select “White

Matter Lesion

Segmentation

Training”

Check image

modalities you

want to train,

e.g. T1,T2,PD,

and FLAIR

DO NOT check

this box to skip

preprocessing

Click and select the location

containing training images

where SVM model will be saved

after training

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Click and select the text file

containing the list of filenames of

training images

Example)

Click and select the file containing

the list of prefixes of training images

Example) .T1.byte.cbq.match.smooth.hdr

.T2.byte.cbq.match.smooth.hdr

.PD.byte.cbq.match.smooth.hdr

.FL.byte.cbq.match.smooth.hdr

.lesion.mask.hdr

.lesion.mask.open.hdr

.lesion.premask.hdr

Training

If all parameters are selected, press

“Apply”.

Testing (Segmentation)

Select “White

Matter Lesion

Segmentation

Training”

DO NOT check

this box to skip

preprocessing

Click and specify the location

containing the saved SVM

models in the “Training” stage.

containing testing images.

Click and select the file containing

the list of filename of testing image.

Example: 601H03166

Click and select the file

containing the list of prefixes of

testing image.

Example: .T1.byte.cbq.match.smooth.hdr

.T2.byte.cbq.match.smooth.hdr

.PD.byte.cbq.match.smooth.hdr

.FL.byte.cbq.match.smooth.hdr

Set the filename to save the

segmented lesion volume in the

end of “Testing” stage.

If all parameters are selected, press

“Apply”.

• Visualization of the segmented lesion volume

Overview

• Introduction

• Getting started

• Pipeline 2 - Preprocessing,

Training, and Segmentation

• Conclusion

Pipeline (w/ Preprocessing)

• If your images are unprocessed…

Co-registration

Skull stripping

Bias correction

Pre-processing

Manual Segmentation

Train SVM model via

training samples and

Adaboost

Training

Voxel-wise evaluation &

segmentation

Testing

Histogram matching

Training/Testing w/ Preprocessing

• In the training or testing menu, check the

“Preprocessing” option.

• Intermediate files by processing steps are

saved in the directory you specified in the

training/testing menu.

• For other training and testing options, see

Check this box

for preprocessing

before “training”. Do same thing for

“testing”.

• Example of preprocessing – coregistration (FLAIR)

• Example of preprocessing – skull stripping

• Example of preprocessing – bias correction and

histogram matching

Overview

• Introduction

• Getting started

and Segmentation

• Conclusion

Conclusion

• A Slicer3 module for automatic segmentation of

white matter lesions has been developed.

– Preprocessing

• Coregistration, skull stripping, bias correction, and

histogram matching

– Training

• Build SVM model using multi-protocol MRIs (T1,

T2, PD, and FLAIR)

– Segmentation

• Test new subject images using the SVM model

built in the training stage

Acknowledgments

• National Alliance for Medical Image

Computing

NIH U54EB005149

Guorong Wu, Ph.D.

UNC Chapel Hill

White Matter Lesion Segmentation Tutorial

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