Motion induced segmentation of stone fragments in ureteroscopy video

Soumya Gupta; Sharib Ali; Louise Goldsmith; Ben Turney; Jens Rittscher

doi:10.1117/12.2549657

16 March 2020 Motion induced segmentation of stone fragments in ureteroscopy video

Soumya Gupta, Sharib Ali, Louise Goldsmith, Ben Turney, Jens Rittscher

Proceedings Volume 11315, Medical Imaging 2020: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 1131514 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2549657
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2020, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

Ureteroscopy is a conventional procedure used for localization and removal of kidney stones. Laser is commonly used to fragment the stones until they are small enough to be removed. Often, the surgical team faces tremendous challenge to successfully perform this task, mainly due to poor image quality, presence of floating debris and occlusions in the endoscopy video. Automated localization and segmentation can help to perform stone fragmentation efficiently. However, the automatic segmentation of kidney stones is a complex and challenging procedure due to stone heterogeneity in terms of shape, size, texture, color and position. In addition, dynamic background, motion blur, local deformations, occlusions, varying illumination conditions and visual clutter from the stone debris make the segmentation task even more challenging. In this paper, we present a novel illumination invariant optical flow based segmentation technique. We introduce a multi-frame based dense optical flow estimation in a primal-dual optimization framework embedded with a robust data-term based on normalized correlation transform descriptors. The proposed technique leverages the motion fields between multiple frames reducing the effect of blur, deformations, occlusions and debris; and the proposed descriptor makes the method robust to illumination changes and dynamic background. Both qualitative and quantitative evaluations show the efficacy of the proposed method on ureteroscopy data. Our algorithm shows an improvement of 5-8% over all evaluation metrics as compared to the previous method. Our multi-frame strategy outperforms classically used two-frame model.

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Soumya Gupta, Sharib Ali, Louise Goldsmith, Ben Turney, and Jens Rittscher "Motion induced segmentation of stone fragments in ureteroscopy video", Proc. SPIE 11315, Medical Imaging 2020: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 1131514 (16 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2549657

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Image segmentation

Optical flow

Renal calculi

Video

Image quality

Motion models

Kidney

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