Simultaneous skull-stripping and lateral ventricle segmentation via fast multi-atlas likelihood fusion

Xiaoying Tang; Kwame Kutten; Can Ceritoglu; Susumu Mori; Michael I. Miller

doi:10.1117/12.2080830

20 March 2015 Simultaneous skull-stripping and lateral ventricle segmentation via fast multi-atlas likelihood fusion

Xiaoying Tang, Kwame Kutten, Can Ceritoglu, Susumu Mori, Michael I. Miller

Proceedings Volume 9413, Medical Imaging 2015: Image Processing; 94130W (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2080830
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we propose and validate a fully automated pipeline for simultaneous skull-stripping and lateral ventricle segmentation using T1-weighted images. The pipeline is built upon a segmentation algorithm entitled fast multi-atlas likelihood-fusion (MALF) which utilizes multiple T1 atlases that have been pre-segmented into six whole-brain labels – the gray matter, the white matter, the cerebrospinal fluid, the lateral ventricles, the skull, and the background of the entire image. This algorithm, MALF, was designed for estimating brain anatomical structures in the framework of coordinate changes via large diffeomorphisms. In the proposed pipeline, we use a variant of MALF to estimate those six whole-brain labels in the test T1-weighted image. The three tissue labels (gray matter, white matter, and cerebrospinal fluid) and the lateral ventricles are then grouped together to form a binary brain mask to which we apply morphological smoothing so as to create the final mask for brain extraction. For computational purposes, all input images to MALF are down-sampled by a factor of two. In addition, small deformations are used for the changes of coordinates. This substantially reduces the computational complexity, hence we use the term “fast MALF”. The skull-stripping performance is qualitatively evaluated on a total of 486 brain scans from a longitudinal study on Alzheimer dementia. Quantitative error analysis is carried out on 36 scans for evaluating the accuracy of the pipeline in segmenting the lateral ventricle. The volumes of the automated lateral ventricle segmentations, obtained from the proposed pipeline, are compared across three different clinical groups. The ventricle volumes from our pipeline are found to be sensitive to the diagnosis.

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Xiaoying Tang, Kwame Kutten, Can Ceritoglu, Susumu Mori, and Michael I. Miller "Simultaneous skull-stripping and lateral ventricle segmentation via fast multi-atlas likelihood fusion", Proc. SPIE 9413, Medical Imaging 2015: Image Processing, 94130W (20 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2080830

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