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Polyp Height and Width Measurement Using Topographic Height Map Jianhua Yao1, Suzanne Frentz1, Jiang Li1,2, Ronald Summers1 1.

Diagnostic Radiology Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health 2. ECE and VMASC, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529

ABSTRACT The height and width of colonic polyps are important characteristics to evaluate the status and malignancy of polyps. We borrow the idea from geographic information systems to employ topographic height maps to compute the polyp height and width. The height map is generated using a ray-casting algorithm through an orthogonal projection. A concentric index is devised to gauge the quality of the height map and is maximized in a multi-scale spiral spherical search for the optimal projection. We then locate the polyp tip and neck using directional height profiles, and derive height and width measurement based on geometrical analysis. We manually measured the height and width of 58 polyps and performed paired t-tests between manual measurement and height map measurement. The test shows that Pearson correlation is 0.742 and P(T

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