Segmentation of MR image using local and global region based geodesic model

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Xiuming Li¹  Dongsheng Jiang¹  Yonghong Shi¹  Wensheng Li¹ 

[1] Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, Shanghai 200032, PR China

关键词: Global image information;    Local image information;    Level set method;    Intensity inhomogeneity;   

Others  :  1138214
DOI  :  10.1186/1475-925X-14-8

 received in 2014-10-21, accepted in 2015-01-12,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Segmentation of the magnetic resonance (MR) images is fundamentally important in medical image analysis. Intensity inhomogeneity due to the unknown noise and weak boundary makes it a difficult problem.

Method

The paper presents a novel level set geodesic model which integrates the local and the global intensity information in the signed pressure force (SPF) function to suppress the intensity inhomogeneity and implement the segmentation. First, a new local and global region based SPF function is proposed to extract the local and global image information in order to ensure a flexible initialization of the object contours. Second, the global SPF is adaptively balanced by the weight calculated by using the local image contrast. Third, two-phase level set formulation is extended to a multi-phase formulation to successfully segment brain MR images.

Results

Experimental results on the synthetic images and MR images demonstrate that the proposed method is very robust and efficient. Compared with the related methods, our method is much more computationally efficient and much less sensitive to the initial contour. Furthermore, the validation on 18 T1-weighted brain MR images (International Brain Segmentation Repository) shows that our method can produce very promising results.

Conclusions

A novel segmentation model by incorporating the local and global information into the original GAC model is proposed. The proposed model is suitable for the segmentation of the inhomogeneous MR images and allows flexible initialization.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Li et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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