Thalamus Segmentation from Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging

In this paper, we propose a semi-automatic thalamus and thalamus nuclei segmentation algorithm from diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) based on the mean-shift algorithm. Comparing with existing thalamus segmentation algorithms which are mainly based on K-means algorithm, our mean-shift based algorithm is more flexible and adaptive. It does not assume a Gaussian distribution or a fixed number of clusters. Furthermore, the single parameter in the mean-shift based algorithm supports hierarchical clustering naturally