Title
Segmentation of brain MRI using active contour model.
Abstract
Alzheimer disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that impairs memory, cognitive function, and gradually leads to dementia, physical deterioration, loss of independence, and death of the affected individual. In this context, segmentation of medical images is a very important technique in the field of image analysis and Computer-Assisted Diagnosis. In this article, we introduce a new automatic method of brain images' segmentation based on the Active Contour AC model to extract the Hippocampus and the Corpus Callosum CC. Our contribution is to combine the geometric method with the statistical method of the AC. We used the Caselle Level Set and added a learning phase to build an average shape and to make the initialization task automatic. For the step of contour evolution, we used the principle of Level set and we added to it the a priori knowledge. Experimental results are very promising. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 27, 3-11, 2017
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1002/ima.22205
Int. J. Imaging Systems and Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Alzheimer disease, computer-assisted diagnosis, hippo-campus, corpus callosum, active contour
Active contour model,Computer vision,Brain mri,Segmentation,Computer science,A priori and a posteriori,Level set,Artificial intelligence,Initialization,Cognition,Corpus callosum
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
1
0899-9457
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amira Ben Rabeh120.43
Faouzi Benzarti2158.94
Hamid Amiri38619.36