A semi-automated method for brain tumor segmentation and volume tracking has been developed. This method uses a pipeline approach to process MRI images. The pipeline process involves the following steps: 1) automatic ...
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In this paper an automatic atlas-based segmentation algorithm for 4D cardiac MR images is proposed. The algorithm is based on the 4D extension of the expectation maximisation (EM) algorithm. The EM algorithm uses a 4D...
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In this paper an automatic atlas-based segmentation algorithm for 4D cardiac MR images is proposed. The algorithm is based on the 4D extension of the expectation maximisation (EM) algorithm. The EM algorithm uses a 4D probabilistic cardiac atlas to estimate the initial model parameters and to integrate a priori information into the classification process. The probabilistic cardiac atlas has been constructed from the manual segmentations of 3D cardiac image sequences of 14 healthy volunteers. It provides space and time-varying probability maps for the left and right ventricles, the myocardium, and background structures such as the liver, stomach, lungs and skin. In addition to using the probabilistic cardiac atlas as a priori information, the segmentation algorithm incorporates spatial and temporal contextual information by using 4D Markov Random Fields. After the classification, the largest connected component of each structure is extracted using a global connectivity filter which improves the results significantly, especially for the myocardium. Validation against manual segmentations and computation of the correlation between manual and automatic segmentation on 249 3D volumes were calculated. We used the 'leave one out' test where the image set to be segmented was not used in the construction of its corresponding atlas. Results show that the procedure can successfully segment the left ventricle (LV) (r = 0.96), myocardium (r = 0.92) and right ventricle (r = 0.92). In addition, 4D images from 10 patients with hypertrophic cardiornyopathy were also manually and automatically segmented yielding a good correlation in the volumes of the LV (r = 0.93) and myocardium (0.94) when the atlas constructed with volunteers is blurred. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The performance of automatic segmentation algorithms often depends critically upon a number of parameters intrinsic to the algorithm. Appropriate setting of these parameters is a pre-requisite for successful segmentat...
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Non-rigid image registration is widely used in the analysis of brain images to the extent it is provided as a standard tool in common packages such as SPM. However the performance of algorithms in specific application...
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3D Bayesian regularization applied to diffusion tensor MRI is presented here. The approach uses Markov Random Field ideas and is based upon the definition of a 3D neighborhood system in which the spatial interactions ...
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We present the results of constructing a probabilistic volumetric model of 3D MR kidney images. The ultimate goal of this work is the mouse kidney segmentation based on a probabilistic volumetric model. The kidneys we...
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With the increasing capability of MR imaging and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques, a significant amount of data related to the haemodynamics of the cardiovascular systems are being generated. Direct visua...
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We describe the design of a statistical atlas-based 3D/4D cardiac segmentation system using a combination of active appearance models (AAM) and statistical deformation models with the Insight Toolkit as an underlying ...
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Radiofrequency ablation is being used increasingly in the treatment of liver tumors, and the detection of local recurrences on follow-up imaging is an important and occasionally challenging task. When the tumor is not...
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Osteoporosis is due to the following two phenomena: a reduction bone mass and a degradation of the microarchitecture of bone tissue. In this paper, we propose a method for extracting morphological information enabling...
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