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3 June 2014 Sequential application of viscous opening and lower leveling for three-dimensional brain extraction on magnetic resonance imaging T1
Jorge Domingo Mendiola-Santibañez, Martín Gallegos-Duarte, Miguel Octavio Arias-Estrada, Israel Marcos Santillán-Méndez, Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz, Iván Ramón Terol-Villalobos
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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 23, Issue 3, 033010 (June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.23.3.033010
Abstract
A composition of the viscous opening and the lower leveling is introduced to extract brain in magnetic resonance imaging T1. The innovative transformation disconnects chained components and has better control on the reconstruction process of the marker inside of the original image. However, the sequential operator requires setting several parameters, making its application difficult. Due to this situation, a simplification is carried out on it to obtain a more practical method. The proposed morphological transformations were tested with the Internet Brain Segmentation Repository (IBSR) database, which is used as a benchmark among the community. The results are compared using the Jaccard and Dice indices with respect to (i) manual segmentations obtained from the IBSR, (ii) mean indices reported in the current literature, and (iii) segmentations obtained from the Brain Extraction Tool, since this is one of the most popular algorithms used for brain segmentation. The average indices of Jaccard and Dice indicate that the reduced transformation produces similar results to the other methods reported in the literature while the sequential operator presents a better performance.
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Jorge Domingo Mendiola-Santibañez, Martín Gallegos-Duarte, Miguel Octavio Arias-Estrada, Israel Marcos Santillán-Méndez, Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz, and Iván Ramón Terol-Villalobos "Sequential application of viscous opening and lower leveling for three-dimensional brain extraction on magnetic resonance imaging T1," Journal of Electronic Imaging 23(3), 033010 (3 June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.23.3.033010
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Brain
Image segmentation
Magnetic resonance imaging
Neuroimaging
Image processing
Databases
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