Extraction of brain tissues by non-parametric region growing method

Author

Yanase, Masato ; Hasegawa, Mikio ; Ikeguchi, Tohru ; Matozaki, Takeshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Electron., Sci. Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

734

Abstract

It is desirable to process the brain images by computers in order to extract brain region from MRI. When these method are applied to MRI, it has been necessary to experimentally decide parameters in order to get best performances. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for the automatic extraction of brain tissues from MRI. This algorithm is called the non-parametric region growing (NPRG) method which does not need the parameter. By NPRG, we can get the same extracted brain regions as the conventional method that has to experimentally decide the parameters

Keywords

biomedical NMR; brain; feature extraction; image segmentation; medical image processing; 3D segmentation; MRI; automatic extraction; brain image processing; brain tissues extraction; growing pixel; nonparametric region growing method; Brain; Computed tomography; Data mining; Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society; Humans; Image edge detection; Joining processes; Magnetic resonance imaging; Roentgenium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.651951

Filename

651951