Title
Automatic Brain Extraction in Fetal MRI using Multi-Atlas-based Segmentation
Abstract
In fetal brain MRI, most of the high-resolution reconstruction algorithms rely on brain segmentation as a preprocessing step. Manual brain segmentation is however highly time-consuming and therefore not a realistic solution. In this work, we assess on a large dataset the performance of Multiple Atlas Fusion (MAF) strategies to automatically address this problem. Firstly, we show that MAF significantly increase the accuracy of brain segmentation as regards single-atlas strategy. Secondly, we show that MAF compares favorably with the most recent approach (Dice above 0.90). Finally, we show that MAF could in turn provide an enhancement in terms of reconstruction quality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1117/12.2081777
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fetal MRI,Brain Extraction,Template-based Segmentation,Multi-Atlas Fusion
Brain segmentation,Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Brain mri,Segmentation,Image segmentation,Atlas (anatomy),Preprocessor,Artificial intelligence,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9413
0277-786X
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
11
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sébastien Tourbier1191.40
P. Hagmann251135.38
m cagneaux330.37
L. Guibaud430.71
subrahmanyam gorthi5191.79
Marie Schaer6624.87
Jean-Philippe Thiran72320257.56
Reto Meuli8296107.65
Meritxell Bach Cuadra932623.59