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Automated Segmentation of Human Skull to plan Craniofacial Surgery using dual-Radiofrequency dual-Echo, 3D Ultrashort Echo Time MRI sequence
Pulkit Khandelwal1, Carrie E. Zimmerman2, Long Xie3, Hyunyeol Lee3, Cheng-Chieh Cheng3, Scott P. Bartlett2, Paul Yushkevich3, and Felix W. Wehrli3
1Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 2Division of Plastic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 3Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
An automated segmentation pipeline to segment human skull in radiation-free Bone-selective Magnetic Resonance Imaging produced by a Dual Radiofrequency, dual‐echo, 3D Ultrashort Echo Time pulse sequence and bone‐selective image reconstruction process.
Automated segmentation pipeline schematic figure. See Yushkevich et. al7 for the detailed algorithm.
3D skull renderings of a random subject of groundtruth segmentation (left) and automated segmentation (right).