Quantitative MRI allows for meaningful investigation on physical and chemical variables in physical units and also comparison between tissue regions on different patients as well as between different time occasions. This since Quantitative MR imaging provides an absolute MRI scale in images. Data sets where provided by SyntheticMR.
Watershed segmentation and Morphological operations
Dilated bone contour mask
Positioned cartilage mask
K-means classification
The algorithm was evaluated on the test patient given by SyntheticMR on the inner slices. The final algorithm reached a recall of 0.8394, a precision of 0.2835 and a F1score of 0.4238.
The algorithm is far from ready for clinical use, however the results from the first attempt at segmenting cartilage shows promise. In the technical documentation suggestions can be found of future actions.