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Purpose: To propose a novel segmentation framework that is dedicated to the follow-up of fat infiltration in individual muscles of patients with neuromuscular disorders.Methods: We designed a semi-automatic segmentation pipeline of individual leg muscles in MR images based on automatic propagation through nonlinear registrations of initial delineation in a minimal number of MR slices. This approach has been validated for the segmentation of individual muscles from MRI data sets, acquired over a 10-month period, from thighs and legs in 10 patients with muscular dystrophy. The robustness of the framework was evaluated using conventional metrics related to muscle volume and clinical metrics related to fat infiltration.Results: High accuracy of the semi-automatic segmentation (mean Dice similarity coefficient higher than 0.89) was reported. The provided method has excellent reliability regarding the reproducibility of the fat fraction estimation, with an average intraclass correlation coefficient score of 0.99. Furthermore, the present segmentation framework was determined to be more reliable than the intra-expert performance, which had an average intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.93.Conclusion: The proposed framework of segmentation can successfully provide an effective and reliable tool for accurate follow-up of any MRI biomarkers in neuromuscular disorders. This method could assist the quantitative assessment of muscular changes occurring in such diseases.
Author(s): Ogier AC, Heskamp L, Michel CP, Fouré A, Bellemare M, Le Troter A, Heerschap A, Bendahan D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Year: 2020
Volume: 83
Issue: 5
Pages: 1825-1836
Print publication date: 01/05/2020
Online publication date: 02/11/2019
Acceptance date: 17/09/2019
ISSN (print): 0740-3194
ISSN (electronic): 1522-2594
Publisher: Wiley
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28030
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28030
PubMed id: 31677312
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