Title :
Automatic anatomical labelling of magnetic resonance brain images
Author :
Sandor, Stephanie ; Leahy, Richard
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
The authors describe their method for automatic anatomic labelling of cortical regions in magnetic resonance (MR) brain images. Their procedure consists of preprocessing head images with a three dimensional (3-D) Marr-Hildreth edge detector and a series of morphological filtering operations. The authors then label brain regions by matching a deformable atlas model to the processed images. They demonstrate an application of this technique to automatically labelling the lobes of the brain from a volume MR image
Keywords :
biomedical NMR; brain; edge detection; medical image processing; 3D Marr-Hildreth edge detector; automatic anatomical labelling; automatic brain lobes labelling; cortical regions; deformable atlas model; head images preprocessing; magnetic resonance brain images; magnetic resonance imaging; medical diagnostic imaging; morphological filtering operations series; volume MR image; Anatomy; Brain modeling; Deformable models; Detectors; Filtering; Image edge detection; Labeling; Magnetic heads; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic separation; Signal processing; Surface morphology;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1994. Engineering Advances: New Opportunities for Biomedical Engineers. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2050-6
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1994.411907
