Level set and region based surface propagation for diffusion tensor MRI segmentation

Mikaël Rousson, Christophe Lenglet, Rachid Deriche

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Abstract

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is a relatively new modality for human brain imaging. During the last years, this modality has become widely used in medical studies. Tractography is currently the favorite technique to characterize and analyse the structure of the brain white matter. Only a few studies have been proposed to group data of particular interest. Rather than working on extracted fibers or on an estimated scalar value accounting for anisotropy as done in other approaches, we propose to extend classical segmentation techniques based on surface evolution by considering region statistics defined on the full diffusion tensor field itself. A multivariate Gaussian is used to approximate the density of the components of diffusion tensor for each sub-region of the volume. We validate our approach on synthetical data and we show promising results on the extraction of the corpus callosum from a real dataset.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsMilan Sonka, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Jan Kybic
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages123-134
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3540226753, 9783540226758
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
EventInternational Workshop on Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis, CVAMIA 2004 and International Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, MMBIA 2004 held in conjunction with 8th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2004 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: May 15 2004May 15 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3117
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

OtherInternational Workshop on Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis, CVAMIA 2004 and International Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, MMBIA 2004 held in conjunction with 8th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2004
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period5/15/045/15/04

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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.

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