Bi-Graph Reasoning for Masticatory Muscle Segmentation From Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Automated segmentation of masticatory muscles is a challenging task considering ambiguous soft tissue attachments and image artifacts of low-radiation cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images. In this paper, we propose a bi-graph reasoning model (BGR) for the simultaneous detection and segmentation of multi-category masticatory muscles from CBCTs. The BGR exploits the local and long-range interdependencies of regions of interest and category-specific prior knowledge of masticatory muscles by reasoning on the category graph and the region graph. The category graph of the learnable muscle prior knowledge handles high-level dependencies of muscle categories, enhancing the feature representation with noise-agnostic category knowledge. The region graph models both local and global dependencies of the candidate muscle regions of interest. The proposed BGR accommodates the high-level dependencies and enhances the region features in the presence of entangled soft tissue and image artifacts. We evaluated the proposed approach by segmenting masticatory muscles on clinically acquired CBCTs. Extensive experimental results show that the BGR effectively segments masticatory muscles with state-of-the-art accuracy.

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E-Artikel

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

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IEEE transactions on medical imaging - 42(2023), 12 vom: 11. Dez., Seite 3690-3701

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Englisch

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Zhong, Yicheng [VerfasserIn]
Pei, Yuru [VerfasserIn]
Nie, Kaichen [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yungeng [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Tianmin [VerfasserIn]
Zha, Hongbin [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 01.12.2023

Date Revised 01.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1109/TMI.2023.3304557

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NLM360660258