This paper presents an approach for fully automatic segmentation of MS lesions in fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. The proposed method estimates a gaussian mixture model with...This paper presents an approach for fully automatic segmentation of MS lesions in fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. The proposed method estimates a gaussian mixture model with three kernels as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), normal tissue and Multiple Sclerosis lesions. To estimate this model, an automatic Entropy based EM algorithm is used to find the best estimated Model. Then, Markov random field (MRF) model and EM algorithm are utilized to obtain and upgrade the class conditional probability density function and the apriori probability of each class. After estimation of Model parameters and apriori probability, brain tissues are classified using bayesian classification. To evaluate the result of the proposed method, similarity criteria of different slices related to 20 MS patients are calculated and compared with other methods which include manual segmentation. Also, volume of segmented lesions are computed and compared with gold standard using correlation coefficient. The proposed method has better performance in comparison with previous works which are reported here.展开更多
将基于像素MRF分割方法拓展到基于地物目标几何约束的区域MRF分割,提出了一种基于区域和统计的纹理影像分割方法,其基本思想是利用Voronoi划分技术将影像域划分为若干子区域。在此基础上,采用二值高斯马尔科夫随机场(BGMRF,bivariate Ga...将基于像素MRF分割方法拓展到基于地物目标几何约束的区域MRF分割,提出了一种基于区域和统计的纹理影像分割方法,其基本思想是利用Voronoi划分技术将影像域划分为若干子区域。在此基础上,采用二值高斯马尔科夫随机场(BGMRF,bivariate Gaussian Markov random field)模型,静态随机场模型和Potts模型从邻域、区域及全局层次描述影像的纹理结构,并将该纹理结构模型纳入贝叶斯框架;依据贝叶斯定理构建纹理影像分割模型;利用metropolis-hastings(M-H)算法进行模型参数估计,并依据最大后验概率(MAP,maximum a posterior)准则进行优化,从而完成纹理影像分割。为了验证所提出方法的正确性,分别对合成纹理影像,真实纹理影像及遥感影像进行了分割实验,定性和定量的测试结果验证了提出方法的有效性、可靠性和准确性。展开更多
文摘This paper presents an approach for fully automatic segmentation of MS lesions in fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. The proposed method estimates a gaussian mixture model with three kernels as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), normal tissue and Multiple Sclerosis lesions. To estimate this model, an automatic Entropy based EM algorithm is used to find the best estimated Model. Then, Markov random field (MRF) model and EM algorithm are utilized to obtain and upgrade the class conditional probability density function and the apriori probability of each class. After estimation of Model parameters and apriori probability, brain tissues are classified using bayesian classification. To evaluate the result of the proposed method, similarity criteria of different slices related to 20 MS patients are calculated and compared with other methods which include manual segmentation. Also, volume of segmented lesions are computed and compared with gold standard using correlation coefficient. The proposed method has better performance in comparison with previous works which are reported here.
文摘将基于像素MRF分割方法拓展到基于地物目标几何约束的区域MRF分割,提出了一种基于区域和统计的纹理影像分割方法,其基本思想是利用Voronoi划分技术将影像域划分为若干子区域。在此基础上,采用二值高斯马尔科夫随机场(BGMRF,bivariate Gaussian Markov random field)模型,静态随机场模型和Potts模型从邻域、区域及全局层次描述影像的纹理结构,并将该纹理结构模型纳入贝叶斯框架;依据贝叶斯定理构建纹理影像分割模型;利用metropolis-hastings(M-H)算法进行模型参数估计,并依据最大后验概率(MAP,maximum a posterior)准则进行优化,从而完成纹理影像分割。为了验证所提出方法的正确性,分别对合成纹理影像,真实纹理影像及遥感影像进行了分割实验,定性和定量的测试结果验证了提出方法的有效性、可靠性和准确性。
