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

fYear

1994

fDate

3-6 Nov 1994

Firstpage

553

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1994.411907

Filename

411907