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Goumiri S, Benboudjema D, Pieczynski W. A new hybrid model of convolutional neural networks and hidden Markov chains for image classification. Neural Comput Appl 2023; 35:1-16. [PMID: 37362578 PMCID: PMC10230497 DOI: 10.1007/s00521-023-08644-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have lately proven to be extremely effective in image recognition. Besides CNN, hidden Markov chains (HMCs) are probabilistic models widely used in image processing. This paper presents a new hybrid model composed of both CNNs and HMCs. The CNN model is used for feature extraction and dimensionality reduction and the HMC model for classification. In the new model, named CNN-HMC, convolutional and pooling layers of the CNN model are applied to extract features maps. Also a Peano scan is applied to obtain several HMCs. Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is used to estimate HMC's parameters and to make the Bayesian Maximum Posterior Mode (MPM) classification method used unsupervised. The objective is to enhance the performances of the CNN models for the image classification task. To evaluate the performance of our proposal, it is compared to six models in two series of experiments. In the first series, we consider two CNN-HMC and compare them to two CNNs, 4Conv and Mini AlexNet, respectively. The results show that CNN-HMC model outperforms the classical CNN model, and significantly improves the accuracy of the Mini AlexNet. In the second series, it is compared to four models CNN-SVMs, CNN-LSTMs, CNN-RFs, and CNN-gcForests, which only differ from CNN-HMC by the second classification step. Based on five datasets and four metrics recall, precision, F1-score, and accuracy, results of these comparisons show again the interest of the proposed CNN-HMC. In particular, with a CNN model of 71% of accuracy, the CNN-HMC gives an accuracy ranging between 81.63% and 92.5%.
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- Soumia Goumiri
- Laboratoire des Méthodes de Conception de Systèmes (LMCS), Ecole nationale Supérieure d’Informatique (ESI), BP, 68M Oued-Smar, 16270 Alger, Algeria
- CERIST, Centre de Recherche sur l’Information Scientifique et Technique, Ben Aknoun, 16030 Algeria
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- Laboratoire des Méthodes de Conception de Systèmes (LMCS), Ecole nationale Supérieure d’Informatique (ESI), BP, 68M Oued-Smar, 16270 Alger, Algeria
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- SAMOVAR, Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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Shoeibi A, Khodatars M, Jafari M, Moridian P, Rezaei M, Alizadehsani R, Khozeimeh F, Gorriz JM, Heras J, Panahiazar M, Nahavandi S, Acharya UR. Applications of deep learning techniques for automated multiple sclerosis detection using magnetic resonance imaging: A review. Comput Biol Med 2021; 136:104697. [PMID: 34358994 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a type of brain disease which causes visual, sensory, and motor problems for people with a detrimental effect on the functioning of the nervous system. In order to diagnose MS, multiple screening methods have been proposed so far; among them, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has received considerable attention among physicians. MRI modalities provide physicians with fundamental information about the structure and function of the brain, which is crucial for the rapid diagnosis of MS lesions. Diagnosing MS using MRI is time-consuming, tedious, and prone to manual errors. Research on the implementation of computer aided diagnosis system (CADS) based on artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose MS involves conventional machine learning and deep learning (DL) methods. In conventional machine learning, feature extraction, feature selection, and classification steps are carried out by using trial and error; on the contrary, these steps in DL are based on deep layers whose values are automatically learn. In this paper, a complete review of automated MS diagnosis methods performed using DL techniques with MRI neuroimaging modalities is provided. Initially, the steps involved in various CADS proposed using MRI modalities and DL techniques for MS diagnosis are investigated. The important preprocessing techniques employed in various works are analyzed. Most of the published papers on MS diagnosis using MRI modalities and DL are presented. The most significant challenges facing and future direction of automated diagnosis of MS using MRI modalities and DL techniques are also provided.
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- Afshin Shoeibi
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Data Acquisition Lab (BDAL), K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
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- Faculty of Engineering, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
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- Faculty of Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (IISRI), Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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- Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (IISRI), Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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- Department of Signal Theory, Networking and Communications, Universidad de Granada, Spain; Department of Psychiatry. University of Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of La Rioja, La Rioja, Spain
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- Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (IISRI), Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore; Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, 599489, Singapore; Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University, Taiwan
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Koley S, Dutta PK, Aganj I. Radius-optimized efficient template matching for lesion detection from brain images. Sci Rep 2021; 11:11586. [PMID: 34078935 PMCID: PMC8172536 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-90147-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Computer-aided detection of brain lesions from volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is in demand for fast and automatic diagnosis of neural diseases. The template-matching technique can provide satisfactory outcome for automatic localization of brain lesions; however, finding the optimal template size that maximizes similarity of the template and the lesion remains challenging. This increases the complexity of the algorithm and the requirement for computational resources, while processing large MRI volumes with three-dimensional (3D) templates. Hence, reducing the computational complexity of template matching is needed. In this paper, we first propose a mathematical framework for computing the normalized cross-correlation coefficient (NCCC) as the similarity measure between the MRI volume and approximated 3D Gaussian template with linear time complexity, [Formula: see text], as opposed to the conventional fast Fourier transform (FFT) based approach with the complexity [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the number of voxels in the image and [Formula: see text] is the number of tried template radii. We then propose a mathematical formulation to analytically estimate the optimal template radius for each voxel in the image and compute the NCCC with the location-dependent optimal radius, reducing the complexity to [Formula: see text]. We test our methods on one synthetic and two real multiple-sclerosis databases, and compare their performances in lesion detection with FFT and a state-of-the-art lesion prediction algorithm. We demonstrate through our experiments the efficiency of the proposed methods for brain lesion detection and their comparable performance with existing techniques.
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- Subhranil Koley
- School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, WB, 721302, India.
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- Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, WB, 721302, India
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Radiology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 149 13th St., Suite 2301, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA.,Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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Bai J, Shah A, Wu X. Optimal multi-object segmentation with novel gradient vector flow based shape priors. Comput Med Imaging Graph 2018; 69:96-111. [PMID: 30237146 DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2018.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2018] [Revised: 06/18/2018] [Accepted: 08/21/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Shape priors have been widely utilized in medical image segmentation to improve segmentation accuracy and robustness. A major way to encode such a prior shape model is to use a mesh representation, which is prone to causing self-intersection or mesh folding. Those problems require complex and expensive algorithms to mitigate. In this paper, we propose a novel shape prior directly embedded in the voxel grid space, based on gradient vector flows of a pre-segmentation. The flexible and powerful prior shape representation is ready to be extended to simultaneously segmenting multiple interacting objects with minimum separation distance constraint. The segmentation problem of multiple interacting objects with shape priors is formulated as a Markov Random Field problem, which seeks to optimize the label assignment (objects or background) for each voxel while keeping the label consistency between the neighboring voxels. The optimization problem can be efficiently solved with a single minimum s-t cut in an appropriately constructed graph. The proposed algorithm has been validated on two multi-object segmentation applications: the brain tissue segmentation in MRI images and the bladder/prostate segmentation in CT images. Both sets of experiments showed superior or competitive performance of the proposed method to the compared state-of-the-art methods.
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- Junjie Bai
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
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Collewet G, Moussaoui S, Deligny C, Lucas T, Idier J. Multi-tissue partial volume quantification in multi-contrast MRI using an optimised spectral unmixing approach. Magn Reson Imaging 2018; 49:39-46. [PMID: 29326046 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2017.12.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Accepted: 12/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Multi-tissue partial volume estimation in MRI images is investigated with a viewpoint related to spectral unmixing as used in hyperspectral imaging. The main contribution of this paper is twofold. It firstly proposes a theoretical analysis of the statistical optimality conditions of the proportion estimation problem, which in the context of multi-contrast MRI data acquisition allows to appropriately set the imaging sequence parameters. Secondly, an efficient proportion quantification algorithm based on the minimisation of a penalised least-square criterion incorporating a regularity constraint on the spatial distribution of the proportions is proposed. Furthermore, the resulting developments are discussed using empirical simulations. The practical usefulness of the spectral unmixing approach for partial volume quantification in MRI is illustrated through an application to food analysis on the proving of a Danish pastry.
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- LS2N, CNRS UMR 6004, 1 rue de la Noé - Nantes Cedex 3 44321, France
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- Irstea, 17 avenue de Cucillé, CS 64427, 35044 Rennes Cedex, France
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- Irstea, 17 avenue de Cucillé, CS 64427, 35044 Rennes Cedex, France
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- LS2N, CNRS UMR 6004, 1 rue de la Noé - Nantes Cedex 3 44321, France
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Mirzaei G, Adeli A, Adeli H. Imaging and machine learning techniques for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Rev Neurosci 2018; 27:857-870. [PMID: 27518905 DOI: 10.1515/revneuro-2016-0029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2016] [Accepted: 06/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common health problem in elderly people. There has been considerable research toward the diagnosis and early detection of this disease in the past decade. The sensitivity of biomarkers and the accuracy of the detection techniques have been defined to be the key to an accurate diagnosis. This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the research performed on the diagnosis of AD based on imaging and machine learning techniques. Different segmentation and machine learning techniques used for the diagnosis of AD are reviewed including thresholding, supervised and unsupervised learning, probabilistic techniques, Atlas-based approaches, and fusion of different image modalities. More recent and powerful classification techniques such as the enhanced probabilistic neural network of Ahmadlou and Adeli should be investigated with the goal of improving the diagnosis accuracy. A combination of different image modalities can help improve the diagnosis accuracy rate. Research is needed on the combination of modalities to discover multi-modal biomarkers.
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Korfiatis P, Kline TL, Erickson BJ. Automated Segmentation of Hyperintense Regions in FLAIR MRI Using Deep Learning. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 2:334-340. [PMID: 28066806 PMCID: PMC5215737 DOI: 10.18383/j.tom.2016.00166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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We present a deep convolutional neural network application based on autoencoders aimed at segmentation of increased signal regions in fluid-attenuated inversion recovery magnetic resonance imaging images. The convolutional autoencoders were trained on the publicly available Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS) data set, and the accuracy was evaluated on a data set where 3 expert segmentations were available. The simultaneous truth and performance level estimation (STAPLE) algorithm was used to provide the ground truth for comparison, and Dice coefficient, Jaccard coefficient, true positive fraction, and false negative fraction were calculated. The proposed technique was within the interobserver variability with respect to Dice, Jaccard, and true positive fraction. The developed method can be used to produce automatic segmentations of tumor regions corresponding to signal-increased fluid-attenuated inversion recovery regions.
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Courbot JB, Rust E, Monfrini E, Collet C. Vertebra segmentation based on two-step refinement. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 4:1. [PMID: 27512644 PMCID: PMC4961731 DOI: 10.1186/s40244-016-0018-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2015] [Accepted: 06/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Knowledge of vertebra location, shape, and orientation is crucial in many medical applications such as orthopedics or interventional procedures. Computed tomography (CT) offers a high contrast between bone and soft tissues, but automatic vertebra segmentation remains difficult. Hence, the wide range of shapes, aging, and degenerative joint disease alterations as well as the variety of pathological cases encountered in an aging population make automatic segmentation sometimes challenging. Besides, daily practice implies a need for affordable computation time. This paper aims to present a new automated vertebra segmentation method (using a first bounding box for initialization) for CT 3D data which tackles these problems. This method is based on two consecutive steps. The first one is a new coarse-to-fine method efficiently reducing the data amount to obtain a coarse shape of the vertebra. The second step consists in a hidden Markov chain (HMC) segmentation using a specific volume transformation within a Bayesian framework. Our method does not introduce any prior on the expected shape of the vertebra within the bounding box and thus deals with the most frequent pathological cases encountered in daily practice. We experiment this method on a set of standard lumbar, thoracic, and cervical vertebrae and on a public dataset, on pathological cases, and in a simple integration example. Quantitative and qualitative results show that our method is robust to changes in shapes and luminance and provides correct segmentation with respect to pathological cases.
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- ICube, Université de Strasbourg - CNRS, Illkirch, 67412 France
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Yazdani S, Yusof R, Karimian A, Mitsukira Y, Hematian A. Automatic Region-Based Brain Classification of MRI-T1 Data. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0151326. [PMID: 27096925 PMCID: PMC4838220 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2015] [Accepted: 02/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Image segmentation of medical images is a challenging problem with several still not totally solved issues, such as noise interference and image artifacts. Region-based and histogram-based segmentation methods have been widely used in image segmentation. Problems arise when we use these methods, such as the selection of a suitable threshold value for the histogram-based method and the over-segmentation followed by the time-consuming merge processing in the region-based algorithm. To provide an efficient approach that not only produce better results, but also maintain low computational complexity, a new region dividing based technique is developed for image segmentation, which combines the advantages of both regions-based and histogram-based methods. The proposed method is applied to the challenging applications: Gray matter (GM), White matter (WM) and cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) segmentation in brain MR Images. The method is evaluated on both simulated and real data, and compared with other segmentation techniques. The obtained results have demonstrated its improved performance and robustness.
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- Sepideh Yazdani
- Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), University Technology Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), University Technology Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of System Design Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, United States of America
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Dubey YK, Mushrif MM, Mitra K. Segmentation of brain MR images using rough set based intuitionistic fuzzy clustering. Biocybern Biomed Eng 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbe.2016.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Pagnozzi AM, Gal Y, Boyd RN, Fiori S, Fripp J, Rose S, Dowson N. The need for improved brain lesion segmentation techniques for children with cerebral palsy: A review. Int J Dev Neurosci 2015; 47:229-46. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2015.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Revised: 08/24/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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- Alex M. Pagnozzi
- CSIRO Digital Productivity and Services FlagshipThe Australian e‐Health Research CentreBrisbaneAustralia
- The University of QueenslandSchool of MedicineSt. LuciaBrisbaneAustralia
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- The University of QueenslandCentre for Medical Diagnostic Technologies in QueenslandSt. LuciaBrisbaneAustralia
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- The University of QueenslandQueensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research CentreSchool of MedicineBrisbaneAustralia
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- Department of Developmental NeuroscienceStella Maris Scientific InstitutePisaItaly
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- CSIRO Digital Productivity and Services FlagshipThe Australian e‐Health Research CentreBrisbaneAustralia
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- CSIRO Digital Productivity and Services FlagshipThe Australian e‐Health Research CentreBrisbaneAustralia
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- CSIRO Digital Productivity and Services FlagshipThe Australian e‐Health Research CentreBrisbaneAustralia
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A Unified Framework for Brain Segmentation in MR Images. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2015; 2015:829893. [PMID: 26089978 PMCID: PMC4450290 DOI: 10.1155/2015/829893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2014] [Revised: 11/07/2014] [Accepted: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Brain MRI segmentation is an important issue for discovering the brain structure and diagnosis of subtle anatomical changes in different brain diseases. However, due to several artifacts brain tissue segmentation remains a challenging task. The aim of this paper is to improve the automatic segmentation of brain into gray matter, white matter, and cerebrospinal fluid in magnetic resonance images (MRI). We proposed an automatic hybrid image segmentation method that integrates the modified statistical expectation-maximization (EM) method and the spatial information combined with support vector machine (SVM). The combined method has more accurate results than what can be achieved with its individual techniques that is demonstrated through experiments on both real data and simulated images. Experiments are carried out on both synthetic and real MRI. The results of proposed technique are evaluated against manual segmentation results and other methods based on real T1-weighted scans from Internet Brain Segmentation Repository (IBSR) and simulated images from BrainWeb. The Kappa index is calculated to assess the performance of the proposed framework relative to the ground truth and expert segmentations. The results demonstrate that the proposed combined method has satisfactory results on both simulated MRI and real brain datasets.
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Lavigne F, Collet C, Armspach JP. 3D+t brain MRI segmentation using robust 4D Hidden Markov Chain. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2015; 2014:4715-8. [PMID: 25571045 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2014.6944677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In recent years many automatic methods have been developed to help physicians diagnose brain disorders, but the problem remains complex. In this paper we propose a method to segment brain structures on two 3D multi-modal MR images taken at different times (longitudinal acquisition). A bias field correction is performed with an adaptation of the Hidden Markov Chain (HMC) allowing us to take into account the temporal correlation in addition to spatial neighbourhood information. To improve the robustness of the segmentation of the principal brain structures and to detect Multiple Sclerosis Lesions as outliers the Trimmed Likelihood Estimator (TLE) is used during the process. The method is validated on 3D+t brain MR images.
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Yazdani S, Yusof R, Riazi A, Karimian A. Magnetic resonance image tissue classification using an automatic method. Diagn Pathol 2014; 9:207. [PMID: 25540017 PMCID: PMC4300026 DOI: 10.1186/s13000-014-0207-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2014] [Accepted: 10/08/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Background Brain segmentation in magnetic resonance images (MRI) is an important stage in clinical studies for different issues such as diagnosis, analysis, 3-D visualizations for treatment and surgical planning. MR Image segmentation remains a challenging problem in spite of different existing artifacts such as noise, bias field, partial volume effects and complexity of the images. Some of the automatic brain segmentation techniques are complex and some of them are not sufficiently accurate for certain applications. The goal of this paper is proposing an algorithm that is more accurate and less complex). Methods In this paper we present a simple and more accurate automated technique for brain segmentation into White Matter, Gray Matter and Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in three-dimensional MR images. The algorithm’s three steps are histogram based segmentation, feature extraction and final classification using SVM. The integrated algorithm has more accurate results than what can be obtained with its individual components. To produce much more efficient segmentation method our framework captures different types of features in each step that are of special importance for MRI, i.e., distributions of tissue intensities, textural features, and relationship with neighboring voxels or spatial features. Results Our method has been validated on real images and simulated data, with desirable performance in the presence of noise and intensity inhomogeneities. Conclusions The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method is a simple and accurate technique to define brain tissues with high reproducibility in comparison with other techniques. Virtual Slides The virtual slide(s) for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/vs/13000_2014_207
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- Sepideh Yazdani
- Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan semarak, Kuala Lumpur, 54100, Malaysia.
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- Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan semarak, Kuala Lumpur, 54100, Malaysia.
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- Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
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Tohka J. Partial volume effect modeling for segmentation and tissue classification of brain magnetic resonance images: A review. World J Radiol 2014; 6:855-864. [PMID: 25431640 PMCID: PMC4241492 DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v6.i11.855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2014] [Revised: 09/03/2014] [Accepted: 09/24/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Quantitative analysis of magnetic resonance (MR) brain images are facilitated by the development of automated segmentation algorithms. A single image voxel may contain of several types of tissues due to the finite spatial resolution of the imaging device. This phenomenon, termed partial volume effect (PVE), complicates the segmentation process, and, due to the complexity of human brain anatomy, the PVE is an important factor for accurate brain structure quantification. Partial volume estimation refers to a generalized segmentation task where the amount of each tissue type within each voxel is solved. This review aims to provide a systematic, tutorial-like overview and categorization of methods for partial volume estimation in brain MRI. The review concentrates on the statistically based approaches for partial volume estimation and also explains differences to other, similar image segmentation approaches.
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Feng D, Liang D, Tierney L. A unified Bayesian hierarchical model for MRI tissue classification. Stat Med 2014; 33:1349-68. [PMID: 24738112 DOI: 10.1002/sim.6018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Various works have used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tissue classification extensively to study a number of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Various noise characteristics and other artifacts make this classification a challenging task. Instead of splitting the procedure into different steps, we extend a previous work to develop a unified Bayesian hierarchical model, which addresses both the partial volume effect and intensity non-uniformity, the two major acquisition artifacts, simultaneously. We adopted a normal mixture model with the means and variances depending on the tissue types of voxels to model the observed intensity values. We modeled the relationship among the components of the index vector of tissue types by a hidden Markov model, which captures the spatial similarity of voxels. Furthermore, we addressed the partial volume effect by construction of a higher resolution image in which each voxel is divided into subvoxels. Finally, We achieved the bias field correction by using a Gaussian Markov random field model with a band precision matrix designed in light of image filtering. Sparse matrix methods and parallel computations based on conditional independence are exploited to improve the speed of the Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation. The unified model provides more accurate tissue classification results for both simulated and real data sets.
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Weizman L, Sira LB, Joskowicz L, Rubin DL, Yeom KW, Constantini S, Shofty B, Bashat DB. Semiautomatic segmentation and follow-up of multicomponent low-grade tumors in longitudinal brain MRI studies. Med Phys 2014; 41:052303. [PMID: 24784396 PMCID: PMC4000396 DOI: 10.1118/1.4871040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2013] [Revised: 02/19/2014] [Accepted: 03/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Tracking the progression of low grade tumors (LGTs) is a challenging task, due to their slow growth rate and associated complex internal tumor components, such as heterogeneous enhancement, hemorrhage, and cysts. In this paper, the authors show a semiautomatic method to reliably track the volume of LGTs and the evolution of their internal components in longitudinal MRI scans. METHODS The authors' method utilizes a spatiotemporal evolution modeling of the tumor and its internal components. Tumor components gray level parameters are estimated from the follow-up scan itself, obviating temporal normalization of gray levels. The tumor delineation procedure effectively incorporates internal classification of the baseline scan in the time-series as prior data to segment and classify a series of follow-up scans. The authors applied their method to 40 MRI scans of ten patients, acquired at two different institutions. Two types of LGTs were included: Optic pathway gliomas and thalamic astrocytomas. For each scan, a "gold standard" was obtained manually by experienced radiologists. The method is evaluated versus the gold standard with three measures: gross total volume error, total surface distance, and reliability of tracking tumor components evolution. RESULTS Compared to the gold standard the authors' method exhibits a mean Dice similarity volumetric measure of 86.58% and a mean surface distance error of 0.25 mm. In terms of its reliability in tracking the evolution of the internal components, the method exhibits strong positive correlation with the gold standard. CONCLUSIONS The authors' method provides accurate and repeatable delineation of the tumor and its internal components, which is essential for therapy assessment of LGTs. Reliable tracking of internal tumor components over time is novel and potentially will be useful to streamline and improve follow-up of brain tumors, with indolent growth and behavior.
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- Lior Weizman
- School of Engineering and Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Department of Radiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
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- School of Engineering and Computer Science and The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Tel Aviv Medical Center, Dana Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
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- Tel Aviv Medical Center, Dana Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
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- Tel Aviv Medical Center, Functional Brain Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
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Topology-based nonlocal fuzzy segmentation of brain MR image with inhomogeneous and partial volume intensity. J Clin Neurophysiol 2012; 29:278-86. [PMID: 22659725 DOI: 10.1097/wnp.0b013e3182570f94] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The aim was to automatically segment brain magnetic resonance (MR) image with inhomogeneous and partial volume (PV) intensity for brain and neurophysiology analysis. METHODS Rather than assuming the presence of a single bias field over the image data, we first apply a local model to MR image analysis. With the brain topology knowledge, several specific local regions are selected, and typical brain tissues are then extracted for the prior estimation of fuzzy clustering center and member function. A new nonlocal fuzzy labeling scheme is applied to global optimization segmentation based on the block comparison and distance weight, which is robust to noise and inhomogeneous intensity. The nonlocal labeling provides optimized fuzzy member value and local intensity estimation of brain tissues such as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), white matter (WM), and gray matter (GM). In addition to inhomogeneous intensity, PV may lead to error segmentation. To correct error segmentation because of PV, this article also provides two correction schemes. The first one is to extract CSF in deep sulci, which captures more CSF candidate by intensity comparison and topology shape comparison. The local pure CSF, WM, and GM is then estimated to correct the interfaces of CSF/GM and WM/GM. RESULTS The segmentation experiments are performed on both brainweb-simulated images and Internet brain segmentation repository database (IBSR) real images. The experimental results demonstrate the robust and efficient performance of our approach. CONCLUSIONS Our approach can be applied to automatic segmentation of the brain MR image.
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Lin GC, Wang WJ, Kang CC, Wang CM. Multispectral MR images segmentation based on fuzzy knowledge and modified seeded region growing. Magn Reson Imaging 2012; 30:230-46. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2010] [Revised: 08/15/2011] [Accepted: 09/18/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nguyen TM, Wu QMJ. Robust Student's-t mixture model with spatial constraints and its application in medical image segmentation. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2012; 31:103-116. [PMID: 21859612 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2011.2165342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Finite mixture model based on the Student's-t distribution, which is heavily tailed and more robust than Gaussian, has recently received great attention for image segmentation. A new finite Student's-t mixture model (SMM) is proposed in this paper. Existing models do not explicitly incorporate the spatial relationships between pixels. First, our model exploits Dirichlet distribution and Dirichlet law to incorporate the local spatial constrains in an image. Secondly, we directly deal with the Student's-t distribution in order to estimate the model parameters, whereas, the Student's-t distributions in previous models are represented as an infinite mixture of scaled Gaussians that lead to an increase in complexity. Finally, instead of using expectation maximization (EM) algorithm, the proposed method adopts the gradient method to minimize the higher bound on the data negative log-likelihood and to optimize the parameters. The proposed model is successfully compared to the state-of-the-art finite mixture models. Numerical experiments are presented where the proposed model is tested on various simulated and real medical images.
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- Thanh Minh Nguyen
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, N9B-3P4, Canada.
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Cabezas M, Oliver A, Lladó X, Freixenet J, Cuadra MB. A review of atlas-based segmentation for magnetic resonance brain images. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2011; 104:e158-e177. [PMID: 21871688 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 221] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2010] [Revised: 07/26/2011] [Accepted: 07/27/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Normal and abnormal brains can be segmented by registering the target image with an atlas. Here, an atlas is defined as the combination of an intensity image (template) and its segmented image (the atlas labels). After registering the atlas template and the target image, the atlas labels are propagated to the target image. We define this process as atlas-based segmentation. In recent years, researchers have investigated registration algorithms to match atlases to query subjects and also strategies for atlas construction. In this paper we present a review of the automated approaches for atlas-based segmentation of magnetic resonance brain images. We aim to point out the strengths and weaknesses of atlas-based methods and suggest new research directions. We use two different criteria to present the methods. First, we refer to the algorithms according to their atlas-based strategy: label propagation, multi-atlas methods, and probabilistic techniques. Subsequently, we classify the methods according to their medical target: the brain and its internal structures, tissue segmentation in healthy subjects, tissue segmentation in fetus, neonates and elderly subjects, and segmentation of damaged brains. A quantitative comparison of the results reported in the literature is also presented.
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- Mariano Cabezas
- Institute of Informatics and Applications, Ed. P-IV, Campus Montilivi, University of Girona, 17071 Girona, Spain
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Makni N, Iancu A, Colot O, Puech P, Mordon S, Betrouni N. Zonal segmentation of prostate using multispectral magnetic resonance images. Med Phys 2011; 38:6093-105. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3651610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Geremia E, Clatz O, Menze BH, Konukoglu E, Criminisi A, Ayache N. Spatial decision forests for MS lesion segmentation in multi-channel magnetic resonance images. Neuroimage 2011; 57:378-90. [PMID: 21497655 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2010] [Revised: 03/24/2011] [Accepted: 03/29/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Wels M, Zheng Y, Huber M, Hornegger J, Comaniciu D. A discriminative model-constrained EM approach to 3D MRI brain tissue classification and intensity non-uniformity correction. Phys Med Biol 2011; 56:3269-300. [PMID: 21558592 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/11/007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We describe a fully automated method for tissue classification, which is the segmentation into cerebral gray matter (GM), cerebral white matter (WM), and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), and intensity non-uniformity (INU) correction in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) volumes. It combines supervised MRI modality-specific discriminative modeling and unsupervised statistical expectation maximization (EM) segmentation into an integrated Bayesian framework. While both the parametric observation models and the non-parametrically modeled INUs are estimated via EM during segmentation itself, a Markov random field (MRF) prior model regularizes segmentation and parameter estimation. Firstly, the regularization takes into account knowledge about spatial and appearance-related homogeneity of segments in terms of pairwise clique potentials of adjacent voxels. Secondly and more importantly, patient-specific knowledge about the global spatial distribution of brain tissue is incorporated into the segmentation process via unary clique potentials. They are based on a strong discriminative model provided by a probabilistic boosting tree (PBT) for classifying image voxels. It relies on the surrounding context and alignment-based features derived from a probabilistic anatomical atlas. The context considered is encoded by 3D Haar-like features of reduced INU sensitivity. Alignment is carried out fully automatically by means of an affine registration algorithm minimizing cross-correlation. Both types of features do not immediately use the observed intensities provided by the MRI modality but instead rely on specifically transformed features, which are less sensitive to MRI artifacts. Detailed quantitative evaluations on standard phantom scans and standard real-world data show the accuracy and robustness of the proposed method. They also demonstrate relative superiority in comparison to other state-of-the-art approaches to this kind of computational task: our method achieves average Dice coefficients of 0.93 ± 0.03 (WM) and 0.90 ± 0.05 (GM) on simulated mono-spectral and 0.94 ± 0.02 (WM) and 0.92 ± 0.04 (GM) on simulated multi-spectral data from the BrainWeb repository. The scores are 0.81 ± 0.09 (WM) and 0.82 ± 0.06 (GM) and 0.87 ± 0.05 (WM) and 0.83 ± 0.12 (GM) for the two collections of real-world data sets-consisting of 20 and 18 volumes, respectively-provided by the Internet Brain Segmentation Repository.
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- Michael Wels
- Pattern Recognition Lab, Department of Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Martensstr. 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
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Ghosh N, Recker R, Shah A, Bhanu B, Ashwal S, Obenaus A. Automated ischemic lesion detection in a neonatal model of hypoxic ischemic injury. J Magn Reson Imaging 2011; 33:772-81. [DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We present a novel fuzzy region-based hidden Markov model (frbHMM) for unsupervised partial-volume classification in brain magnetic resonance images (MRIs). The primary contribution is an efficient graphical representation of 3D image data in which irregularly-shaped image regions have memberships to a number of classes rather than one discrete class. Our model groups voxels into regions for efficient processing, but also refines the region boundaries to the voxel level for optimal accuracy. This strategy is most effective in data where partial-volume effects due to resolution-limited image acquisition result in intensity ambiguities. Our frbHMM employs a forward-backward scheme for parameter estimation through iterative computation of region class likelihoods. We validate our proposed method on simulated and clinical brain MRIs of both normal and multiple sclerosis subjects. Quantitative results demonstrate the advantages of our fuzzy model over the discrete approach with significant improvements in classification accuracy (30% reduction in mean square error).
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Lin GC, Wang CM, Wang WJ, Sun SY. Automated classification of multispectral MR images using unsupervised constrained energy minimization based on fuzzy logic. Magn Reson Imaging 2010; 28:721-38. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2009] [Revised: 01/02/2010] [Accepted: 03/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Tao G, He R, Datta S, Narayana PA. Symmetric inverse consistent nonlinear registration driven by mutual information. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2009; 95:105-115. [PMID: 19268386 PMCID: PMC2744864 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2009.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2008] [Revised: 01/27/2009] [Accepted: 01/27/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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A nonlinear viscoelastic image registration algorithm based on the demons paradigm and incorporating inverse consistent constraint (ICC) is implemented. An inverse consistent and symmetric cost function using mutual information (MI) as a similarity measure is employed. The cost function also includes regularization of transformation and inverse consistent error (ICE). The uncertainties in balancing various terms in the cost function are avoided by alternatively minimizing the similarity measure, the regularization of the transformation, and the ICE terms. The diffeomorphism of registration for preventing folding and/or tearing in the deformation is achieved by the composition scheme. The quality of image registration is first demonstrated by constructing brain atlas from 20 adult brains (age range 30-60). It is shown that with this registration technique: (1) the Jacobian determinant is positive for all voxels and (2) the average ICE is around 0.004 voxels with a maximum value below 0.1 voxels. Further, the deformation-based segmentation on Internet Brain Segmentation Repository, a publicly available dataset, has yielded high Dice similarity index (DSI) of 94.7% for the cerebellum and 74.7% for the hippocampus, attesting to the quality of our registration method.
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- Corresponding author: Ponnada A. Narayana, Ph.D, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 6431 Fannin St., Houston, TX 77030. , Tel: 713-500-7677, Fax: 713-500-7684
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Brouwer RM, Hulshoff Pol HE, Schnack HG. Segmentation of MRI brain scans using non-uniform partial volume densities. Neuroimage 2009; 49:467-77. [PMID: 19635574 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2008] [Revised: 07/17/2009] [Accepted: 07/17/2009] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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We present an algorithm that provides a partial volume segmentation of a T1-weighted image of the brain into gray matter, white matter and cerebrospinal fluid. The algorithm incorporates a non-uniform partial volume density that takes the curved nature of the cortex into account. The pure gray and white matter intensities are estimated from the image, using scanner noise and cortical partial volume effects. Expected tissue fractions are subsequently computed in each voxel. The algorithm has been tested for reliability, correct estimation of the pure tissue intensities on both real (repeated) MRI data and on simulated (brain) images. Intra-class correlation coefficients (ICCs) were above 0.93 for all volumes of the three tissue types for repeated scans from the same scanner, as well as for scans with different voxel sizes from different scanners with different field strengths. The implementation of our non-uniform partial volume density provided more reliable volumes and tissue fractions, compared to a uniform partial volume density. Applying the algorithm to simulated images showed that the pure tissue intensities were estimated accurately. Variations in cortical thickness did not influence the accuracy of the volume estimates, which is a valuable property when studying (possible) group differences. In conclusion, we have presented a new partial volume segmentation algorithm that allows for comparisons over scanners and voxel sizes.
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- Rachel M Brouwer
- Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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