Brain tissue classification in magnetic resonance images

Automatic segmentation of brain images is a challenging problem due to the complex structure of brain images, as well as to the absence of anatomy models. Brain segmentation into white matter, gray matter, and cerebral spinal fluid, is an important stage for many problems, including the studies in 3...

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Main Authors: Yazdani, Sapideh, Yusof, Rubiyah, Karimian, Alireza, Riazi, Amir Hossein
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author Yazdani, Sapideh
Yusof, Rubiyah
Karimian, Alireza
Riazi, Amir Hossein
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description Automatic segmentation of brain images is a challenging problem due to the complex structure of brain images, as well as to the absence of anatomy models. Brain segmentation into white matter, gray matter, and cerebral spinal fluid, is an important stage for many problems, including the studies in 3-D visualizations for disease detection and surgical planning. In this paper we present a novel fully automated framework for tissue classification of brain in MR Images that is a combination of two techniques: GLCM and SVM, each of which has been customized for the problem of brain tissue segmentation such that the results are more robust than its individual components that is demonstrated through experiments. The proposed framework has been validated on brainweb dataset of different modalities, with desirable performance in the presence of noise and bias field. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method the Kappa similarity index is computed. Our method achieves higher kappa index (91.5) compared with other methods currently in use. As an application, our method has been used for segmentation of MR images with promising results.
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spelling utm.eprints-579782021-12-15T00:54:14Z http://eprints.utm.my/57978/ Brain tissue classification in magnetic resonance images Yazdani, Sapideh Yusof, Rubiyah Karimian, Alireza Riazi, Amir Hossein RC Internal medicine Automatic segmentation of brain images is a challenging problem due to the complex structure of brain images, as well as to the absence of anatomy models. Brain segmentation into white matter, gray matter, and cerebral spinal fluid, is an important stage for many problems, including the studies in 3-D visualizations for disease detection and surgical planning. In this paper we present a novel fully automated framework for tissue classification of brain in MR Images that is a combination of two techniques: GLCM and SVM, each of which has been customized for the problem of brain tissue segmentation such that the results are more robust than its individual components that is demonstrated through experiments. The proposed framework has been validated on brainweb dataset of different modalities, with desirable performance in the presence of noise and bias field. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method the Kappa similarity index is computed. Our method achieves higher kappa index (91.5) compared with other methods currently in use. As an application, our method has been used for segmentation of MR images with promising results. Penerbit UTM Press 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/57978/1/SapidehYazdani2015_BrainTissueClassificationinMagnetic.pdf Yazdani, Sapideh and Yusof, Rubiyah and Karimian, Alireza and Riazi, Amir Hossein (2015) Brain tissue classification in magnetic resonance images. Jurnal Teknologi, 72 (2). pp. 29-32. ISSN 0127-9696 http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/jt.v72.3879 DOI:10.11113/jt.v72.3879
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Brain tissue classification in magnetic resonance images
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title_full Brain tissue classification in magnetic resonance images
title_fullStr Brain tissue classification in magnetic resonance images
title_full_unstemmed Brain tissue classification in magnetic resonance images
title_short Brain tissue classification in magnetic resonance images
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topic RC Internal medicine
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