Title
A Morphological Approach for Infant Brain Segmentation in MRI Data.
Abstract
This paper describes a skull stripping method for premature infant data. Skull stripping involves the extraction of brain tissue from medical brain images. Our algorithm initially addresses the reduction of the image artefacts and the generation of the binary mask that is used in the initialisation of a region growing brain segmentation process. After segmenting the brain tissue, we detail two novel post processing steps. First, we refine the edges using Kapur entropy, Low Pass Filter and gradient magnitude. Second, we remove the lacrimal glands by applying shape detection, morphological operators and Canny edge detection. The performance evaluation was conducted by comparing the segmented results with the ground truth data marked by our clinical partners.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/IMVIP.2011.36
IMVIP
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
premature infant data,mri data,ground truth data,brain tissue,brain segmentation process,morphological approach,canny edge detection,infant brain segmentation,binary mask,shape detection,kapur entropy,low pass filter,medical brain image,magnetic resonance imaging,entropy,image segmentation,pediatrics
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michele Peporte100.34
Dana E. Ilea2813.71
Eilish Twomey310.68
Paul F. Whelan456139.95