Multi-organ Segmentation from Abdominal CT with Random Forest based Statistical Shape Model

Abstract

An automatic multi-organ segmentation method from upper abdominal CT image is proposed in this paper. A group of statistical shape models for multiple organs are generated by learning the statistical distribution of organs' shapes and intensity profiles. Then, a random forest regression model is trained to find the candidate position to initialize the statistical shape model. The proposed method is evaluated at segmentation of four abdomen organs (spleen, right kidney, left kidney and liver) from training set of 26 cases of upper abdominal CT images. The accuracy shows that the initialization improves the accuracy for statistical shape model-based segmentation.