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An accurate segmentation is critical, especially when the low grade gliomas morphological changes remain subtle, resembles peritumeral tissue characteristics. This quantitative measurement depends on the accuracy of the segmentation method used. The undesired partial volume effect, which lies on a boundary between a highly infiltrating low grade gliomas and peritumeral vasogenic edema, makes unerring...
Segmentation of anatomical regions is the fundamental problem in medical image analysis. The watershed algorithm is used for the segmentation of anatomical regions and it is computationally simple. The active contour algorithm is used to extract the tumor region in the segmented image, but it suffers from computational complexity and it is insensitive to noise. The proposed method combines watershed...
Brain tumor segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) is an important task to measure tumor responses to treatments. However, automatic segmentation is very challenging. This paper presents an automatic brain tumor segmentation method based on a Normalized Gaussian Bayesian classification and a new 3D Fluid Vector Flow (FVF) algorithm. In our method, a Normalized Gaussian Mixture Model (NGMM)...
In this paper we present a fully automatic and unsupervised brain tumor segmentation method which considers human knowledge. The expert knowledge and the features derived from the MR images are coupled to define heuristic rules aimed to the design of the fuzzy approach. To assess the unsupervised and fully automatic segmentation, intensity-based objective measures are defined, and a new method for...
Tumor segmentation from MRI data is an important but time consuming task performed manually by medical experts. Automating this process is challenging due to the high diversity in appearance of tumor tissue among different patients and, in many cases, similarity between tumor and normal tissue. We propose a semi-automatic interactive brain tumor segmentation system that incorporates 2D interactive...
In this paper, the multi-kernel SVM (Support Vector Machine) classification, integrated with a fusion process, is proposed to segment brain tumor from multi-sequence MRI images (T2, PD, FLAIR). The objective is to quantify the evolution of a tumor during a therapeutic treatment. As the procedure develops, a manual learning process about the tumor is carried out just on the first MRI examination. Then...
The main objective of this paper is to provide an efficient tool for delineating brain tumors in three-dimensional magnetic resonance images. To achieve this goal, we use basically a region-based level-set approach and some conventional methods. Our proposed approach produces good results and decreases processing time. We present here the main stages of our system, and preliminary results which are...
Tumor/abnormality segmentation from magnetic resonance imagery (MRI) can play a significant role in cancer research and clinical practice. Although accurate tumor segmentation by radiologists is ideal, it is extremely tedious. Experience shows that for MRI database indexing purposes approximate segmentations can be adequate. In this paper, we propose a straightforward, real-time technique to find...
Water diffusion measurements have been shown to be sensitive to tissue cellular size, extra cellular volume, and membrane permeability. Therefore, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) by MRI can be used to characterize highly cellular regions of tumors versus acellular regions, distinguishing cystic regions from solid regions. An automatic segmentation method is proposed in this paper based on a multi-phase...
Quantitative measurements of tumor volume becomes more realistic with the use of imaging - particularly specially when the tumor have non-ellipsoidal morphology, which remains subtle, irregular and difficult to assess by visual metric and clinical examination. The quantitative measurements depend strongly on the accuracy of the segmentation technique. The validity of brain tumor segmentation methods...
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