Semi-automatic Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Based Active Contours Model and Variational Dirichlet Process
Foued Derraz1, Laurent Peyrodie2, Antonio PINTI3, Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed3, Azzeddine Chikh4, Patrick Hautecoeur5
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.67, No.2, pp. 95-118, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2010.067.095
Abstract We propose a new semi-automatic segmentation based Active Contour Model and statistic prior knowledge of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Lesions in Regions Of Interest (RIO) within brain Magnetic Resonance Images(MRI). Reliable segmentation of MS lesion is important for at least three types of practical applications: pharmaceutical trails, making decision for drug treatment, patient follow-up. Manual segmentation of the MS lesions in brain MRI by well qualified experts is usually preferred. However, manual segmentation is hard to reproduce and can be highly cost and time consuming in the presence of large volume of MRI data. In other hand, automated segmentation methods are… More >
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