Automatic segmentation of infant brain MR images: With special reference to myelinated white matter

• Autorzy: Devi C. N. , Chandrasekharan A. , Sundararaman V. K. , Alex Z. C.

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DOI

10.1016/j.bbe.2016.11.004

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Automatic segmentation of infant brain images is faced with numerous challenges like poor image contrast, motion artifacts, and changes caused by progressive myelination of the infant brain. Since timely myelination points to normal brain maturity, monitoring the progress and degree of myelination is clinically significant. However, most of the existing segmentation methods do not segment myelinated portions of the infant brain. In this paper, we propose a segmentation approach focused on segmenting the myelinated white matter tissue in T1-weighted magnetic resonance images of the infant brain. The novelty of the algorithm lies in the introduction of a weighted localized Tsallis entropy based thresh-olding method. The proposed method is also tested on older babies beyond the one-year age mark to verify its utility and robustness. It is seen that the mean Dice coefficients obtained for myelin segmentation by the proposed weighted localized method are higher than that of the other methods, namely, the conventional Tsallis entropy thresholding and modified localized method.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

automatic segmentation; infant brain; MRI image; myelination

PL

segmentacja automatyczna; mózg niemowlęcy; obraz MRI; mielinizacja

• Wydawca: Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences ; Elsevier
• Czasopismo: Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
• Rocznik: 2017
• Tom: Vol. 37, no. 1
• Strony: 143--158
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 63 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Devi C. N.

• School of Electronics Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India

autor

Chandrasekharan A.

• Department of Radiology, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India

autor

Sundararaman V. K.

• M.R. Scientist, Philips Innovation Centre, Bangalore, India

autor

Alex Z. C.

• School of Electronics Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India

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Uwagi

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Opracowanie ze środków MNiSW w ramach umowy 812/P-DUN/2016 na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (zadania 2017).