Simulation of brain tumors in MR images for evaluation of segmentation efficacy

M Prastawa, E Bullitt, G Gerig - Medical image analysis, 2009 - Elsevier
Obtaining validation data and comparison metrics for segmentation of magnetic resonance
images (MRI) are difficult tasks due to the lack of reliable ground truth. This problem is even …

Synthetic ground truth for validation of brain tumor MRI segmentation

M Prastawa, E Bullitt, G Gerig - International Conference on Medical Image …, 2005 - Springer
Validation and method of comparison for segmentation of magnetic resonance images (MRI)
presenting pathology is a challenging task due to the lack of reliable ground truth. We …

Supervised learning based multimodal MRI brain tumour segmentation using texture features from supervoxels

M Soltaninejad, G Yang, T Lambrou, N Allinson… - Computer methods and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Accurate segmentation of brain tumour in magnetic resonance images (MRI) is
a difficult task due to various tumour types. Using information and features from multimodal …

Machine learning based brain tumour segmentation on limited data using local texture and abnormality

S Bonte, I Goethals, R Van Holen - Computers in biology and medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Brain tumour segmentation in medical images is a very challenging task due to the large
variety in tumour shape, position, appearance, scanning modalities and scanning …

3D multimodal MRI brain glioma tumor and edema segmentation: a graph cut distribution matching approach

I Njeh, L Sallemi, IB Ayed, K Chtourou… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study investigates a fast distribution-matching, data-driven algorithm for 3D multimodal
MRI brain glioma tumor and edema segmentation in different modalities. We learn non …

Segmentation of brain tissue from magnetic resonance images

T Kapur, WEL Grimson, WM Wells III, R Kikinis - Medical image analysis, 1996 - Elsevier
Segmentation of medical imagery is a challenging problem due to the complexity of the
images, as well as to the absence of models of the anatomy that fully capture the possible …

Improved EM-based tissue segmentation and partial volume effect quantification in multi-sequence brain MRI

G Dugas-Phocion, MAG Ballester, G Malandain… - … Conference on Medical …, 2004 - Springer
Abstract The Expectation Maximization algorithm is a powerful probabilistic tool for brain
tissue segmentation. The framework is based on the Gaussian mixture model in MRI, and …

Improved brain tumor segmentation by utilizing tumor growth model in longitudinal brain MRI

L Pei, SMS Reza, W Li, C Davatzikos… - Medical Imaging …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this work, we propose a novel method to improve texture based tumor segmentation by
fusing cell density patterns that are generated from tumor growth modeling. To model tumor …

Impact of acquisition protocols and processing streams on tissue segmentation of T1 weighted MR images

KA Clark, RP Woods, DA Rottenberg, AW Toga… - NeuroImage, 2006 - Elsevier
The segmentation of T1-weighted images into gray matter (GM), white matter (WM), and
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a fundamental processing step in neuroimaging, the results of …

A survey of MRI-based medical image analysis for brain tumor studies

S Bauer, R Wiest, LP Nolte… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
MRI-based medical image analysis for brain tumor studies is gaining attention in recent
times due to an increased need for efficient and objective evaluation of large amounts of …