Semiautomatic quantification of abdominal wall muscles deformations based on dynamic MRI image registration
Résumé
in the diagnosis of abdominal muscle deficiency. Here, we present a dedicated semiautomatic dynamic MRI postprocessing method enabling the quantification of spatial and temporal deformations of the antero-lateral abdominal wall muscles. Ten healthy participants were imaged during a controlled breathing session at the L3–L4 disc level using real-time dynamic MRI at 3 T. A coarse featuretracking step allowed the selection of the inhalation cycle of maximum abdominal excursion. Over this image series, the described method combines (1) a supervised 2D+t segmentation procedure of the abdominal wall muscles, (2) the quantification of muscle deformations based on masks registration, and (3) the mapping of deformations within muscle subzones leveraging a dedicated automatic parcellation. The supervised 2D+t segmentation (1) provided an accurate segmentation of the abdominal wall muscles throughout maximum inhalation with a 0.95 ± 0.03 Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) value and a 2.3 ± 0.7 mm Hausdorff distance value while requiring only manual segmentation of 20% of the data. The robustness of the deformation quantification (2) was indicated by high indices of correspondence between the registered source mask and the target mask (0.98 ± 0.01 DSC value and 2.1 ± 1.5 mm Hausdorff distance value). Parcellation (3) enabled the distinction of muscle substructures that are anatomically relevant but could not be distinguished based on image contrast. The present genuine postprocessing method provides a quantitative analytical frame that could be used in further studies for a better understanding of abdominal wall deformations in physiological and pathological situations.
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Cite 10.57745/CTM9BO Jeu de données JOPPIN, Victoria; JOURDAN, Arthur; BEGE, Thierry; MASSON, Catherine; BENDAHAN, David, 2025, "Dynamic axial Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of healthy abdominal wall", https://doi.org/10.57745/CTM9BO, Recherche Data Gouv, V2, UNF:6:0zJJKquOhkAgTfJ75hNIng== [fileUNF]