Three-dimensional brain magnetic resonance imaging segmentation via knowledge-driven decision theory

Nishant Verma; Gautam S. Muralidhar; Alan C. Bovik; Matthew C. Cowperthwaite; Mark G. Burnett; Mia K. Markey

doi:10.1117/1.JMI.1.3.034001

1 October 2014 Three-dimensional brain magnetic resonance imaging segmentation via knowledge-driven decision theory

Nishant Verma, Gautam S. Muralidhar, Alan C. Bovik, Matthew C. Cowperthwaite, Mark G. Burnett, Mia K. Markey

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Journal of Medical Imaging, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 034001 (October 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.1.3.034001

Abstract

Brain tissue segmentation on magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is a difficult task because of significant intensity overlap between the tissue classes. We present a new knowledge-driven decision theory (KDT) approach that incorporates prior information of the relative extents of intensity overlap between tissue class pairs for volumetric MR tissue segmentation. The proposed approach better handles intensity overlap between tissues without explicitly employing methods for removal of MR image corruptions (such as bias field). Adaptive tissue class priors are employed that combine probabilistic atlas maps with spatial contextual information obtained from Markov random fields to guide tissue segmentation. The energy function is minimized using a variational level-set-based framework, which has shown great promise for MR image analysis. We evaluate the proposed method on two well-established real MR datasets with expert ground-truth segmentations and compare our approach against existing segmentation methods. KDT has low-computational complexity and shows better segmentation performance than other segmentation methods evaluated using these MR datasets.

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Nishant Verma, Gautam S. Muralidhar, Alan C. Bovik, Matthew C. Cowperthwaite, Mark G. Burnett, and Mia K. Markey "Three-dimensional brain magnetic resonance imaging segmentation via knowledge-driven decision theory," Journal of Medical Imaging 1(3), 034001 (1 October 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.1.3.034001

Published: 1 October 2014

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