Title
BRAIN SURFACE SEGMENTATION OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES OF THE FETUS
Abstract
In this work we present a method for the image anal- ysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of fetuses. Our goal is to segment the brain surface from multiple volumes (axial, coronal and sagittal acquisitions) of a fe- tus. To this end we propose a two-step approach: first, a Finite Gaussian Mixture Model (FGMM) will segment the image into 3 classes: brain, non-brain and mixture voxels. Second, a Markov Random Field scheme will be applied to re-distribute mixture voxels into either brain or non-brain tissue. Our main contributions are an adapted energy computation and an extended neigh- borhood from multiple volumes in the MRF step. Pre- liminary results on four fetuses of different gestational ages will be shown.
Year
Venue
Field
2008
European Signal Processing Conference
Voxel,Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Coronal plane,Markov random field,Segmentation,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Sagittal plane,Mixture model,Magnetic resonance imaging
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2219-5491
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
D. Ferrario100.34
M. Bach Cuadra2474.47
Marie Schaer3624.87
Nawal Houhou400.34
Dominique Zosso527316.60
Stephan Eliez6574.78
L. Guibaud730.71
Jean-Philippe Thiran82320257.56