Title :
The 3-dimensional clumsy painter method for extracting brain regions from MRI
Author :
Ikeguchi, Tohru ; Satoh, Masamune ; Matozaki, Takeshi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Electron., Sci. Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
fDate :
31 Oct-3 Nov 1996
Abstract :
In medical image processing, it is desirable to extract interested regions from images for reconstructing 3-dimensional structures. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm called the three dimensional clumsy painter method for extracting brain tissues from MRI with the 3-dimensional translation rule and the gray scale translation condition. As a result, it is shown that the new method exhibits higher performance on removing uninterested regions than the conventional method, such as morphological filterings
Keywords :
biomedical NMR; brain; feature extraction; image reconstruction; image segmentation; medical image processing; 3-dimensional translation rule; 3D clumsy painter method; 3D structure reconstruction; MRI; brain regions extraction; brain tissues; gray scale translation condition; medical image processing; morphological filtering comparison; optimal shape; Biomedical image processing; Brain; Computed tomography; Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society; Filtering algorithms; Image reconstruction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Roentgenium; Shape; X-ray imaging;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1996.652714
