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A Diffeomorphic Mapping Based Characterization of Temporal Sequences: Application to the Pelvic Organ Dynamics Assessment

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In various imaging applications, shape variations are studied in order to define the transformations involved or to quantify a distance between each change performed. Regardless of the way the shapes may be extracted, with 2D imaging, shapes concern essentially curves or sets of points depending on the available data. Wether time is related to the shape variations or not, one can consider a set of shapes as the observation of the temporal evolution of an initial shape. In this context, we present a methodology aiming at quantifying the evolution of a set of contours without landmarks. Our characterization of temporal sequences is based on the large deformation diffeomorphic mapping paradigm and the shape representation based on currents, which allow both to propose a shape metric and a curve matching of the timed variations. Then, mechanics related features are extracted as they are physically meaningful and quite painless understandable.

In this paper, the process is applied within the scope of a pelviperineology study. Available clinical diagnoses are combined with statistical analysis to show the soundness of the approach. Indeed, pelvic floor disorders are characterized by abnormal organ descents and deformations during abdominal strains. As they are soft-tissue organs, the pelvic organs have no fixed landmarks, in addition to wide shape differences. Routinely used, 2D sagittal mri sequences are segmented to provide the contour sets from which the characterization should highlight pelvic organ behaviors. We believe that a statistical analysis of these behaviors on several dynamic mri sequences could help to a better understanding of the pelvic floor pathophysiology. The methodology is applied on a dataset of 30 patients with different clinical diagnoses. Some promising results are presented, where the pathology detection capability of the deformation features is assessed, and the principal organ dynamics modes are computed, through an inter-patient analysis. Also, an organ parcellation is proposed thanks to the local deformation analysis, it identifies spatial references which are clinically relevant.

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We thank Dr. J. Lefèvre for the fruitful discussions about the lddmm method.

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    Mehdi Rahim, Marc-Emmanuel Bellemare & Rémy Bulot

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This work is part of the MoDyPe project (http://modype.lsis.org) supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR) under reference “ANR-09-SYSC-008”.

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Rahim, M., Bellemare, ME., Bulot, R. et al. A Diffeomorphic Mapping Based Characterization of Temporal Sequences: Application to the Pelvic Organ Dynamics Assessment. J Math Imaging Vis 47, 151–164 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10851-012-0391-6

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