Low-level segmentation of 3-D magnetic resonance brain images-a rule-based system
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
- Vol. 9 (3) , 327-337
- https://doi.org/10.1109/42.57771
Abstract
A rule-based, low-level segmentation system that can automatically identify the space occupied by different structures of the brain by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is described. Given three-dimensional image data as a stack of slices, it can extract brain parenchyma, cerebro-spinal fluid, and high-intensity abnormalities. The multiple feature environment of MR imaging is used to comput several low-level features to enhance the separability of voxels of different structures. The population distribution of each feature is considered and a confidence function is computed whose amplitude indicates the likelihood of a voxel, with a given feature value, being a member of a class of voxels. Confidence levels are divided into a set of ranges to define notions such as highly confident, moderately confident, and least confident. The rule-based system consists of a set of sequential stages in which partially segmented binary scenes of one stage guide the next stage. Some important low-level definitions and rules for a clinical imaging protocol are presented. The system is applied to several MR images.Keywords
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