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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2010
Yong Fan, Beijing, CN;
Hongming LI, Beijing, CN;
Yong Fan, Beijing, CN;
Hongming Li, Beijing, CN;
INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Beijing, CN;
Abstract
A method for brain tumor segmentation in multi-parametric 3D MR images. The method comprises: pre-processing an input multi-parametric 3D MR image; classifying each voxel in the pre-processed multi-parametric 3D MR image, determining the probability that the voxel is part of a brain tumor, and obtaining an initial label information for the image segmentation based on the classification probability; constructing a graph based representation for the pre-processed image to be segmented; and generating the segmented brain tumor image using the initial label information and graph based representation. This method tries to exploit the local and global consistency of the image to be segmented for the tumor segmentation and can alleviate partially the performance degradation caused by the inter-subject image variability and insufficient statistical information from training.