Title
Patient-specific semi-supervised learning for postoperative brain tumor segmentation.
Abstract
In contrast to preoperative brain tumor segmentation, the problem of postoperative brain tumor segmentation has been rarely approached so far. We present a fully-automatic segmentation method using multimodal magnetic resonance image data and patient-specific semisupervised learning. The idea behind our semi-supervised approach is to effectively fuse information from both pre-and postoperative image data of the same patient to improve segmentation of the postoperative image. We pose image segmentation as a classification problem and solve it by adopting a semi-supervised decision forest. The method is evaluated on a cohort of 10 high-grade glioma patients, with segmentation performance and computation time comparable or superior to a state-of-the-art brain tumor segmentation method. Moreover, our results confirm that the inclusion of preoperative MR images lead to a better performance regarding postoperative brain tumor segmentation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-10404-1_89
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Semi-supervised learning,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Glioma,Brain tumor segmentation,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Random forest,Magnetic resonance imaging
Conference
8673
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
Pt 1
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raphael Meier130714.51
Stefan Bauer237114.87
Johannes Slotboom3122.40
Roland Wiest434422.73
Mauricio Reyes57313.74