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KMID : 1137820170380020082
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의공학회지
2017 Volume.38 No. 2 p.82 ~ p.88
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Automated Segmentation of the Lateral Ventricle Based on Graph Cuts Algorithm and Morphological Operations
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Park Seong-Beom
Yoon Ui-Cheul
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Abstract
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Enlargement of the lateral ventricles have been identified as a surrogate marker of neurological disorders. Quantitative measure of the lateral ventricle from MRI would enable earlier and more accurate clinical diagnosis in monitoring disease progression. Even though it requires an automated or semi-automated segmentation method for objective quantification, it is difficult to define lateral ventricles due to insufficient contrast and brightness of structural imaging. In this study, we proposed a fully automated lateral ventricle segmentation method based on a graph cuts algorithm combined with atlas-based segmentation and connected component labeling. Initially, initial seeds for graph cuts were defined by atlas-based segmentation (ATS). They were adjusted by partial volume images in order to provide accurate a priori information on graph cuts. A graph cuts algorithm is to finds a global minimum of energy with minimum cut/maximum flow algorithm function on graph. In addition, connected component labeling used to remove false ventricle regions. The proposed method was validated with the well-known tools using the dice similarity index, recall and precision values. The proposed method was significantly higher dice similarity index (0.860 ± 0.036, p < 0.001) and recall (0.833 ± 0.037, p < 0.001) compared with other tools. Therefore, the proposed method yielded a robust and reliable segmentation result.
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KEYWORD
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Graph cuts algorithm, Atlas-based segmentation, Morphological Operation, Partial Volume Estimation
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