Abstract
Automatic parcellation of cortical surfaces into sulcal based regions is of great importance in structural and functional mapping of human brain. In this paper, a novel method is proposed for automatic cortical sulcal parcellation based on the geometric characteristics of the cortical surface including its principal curvatures and principal directions. This method is composed of two major steps: 1) employing the hidden Markov random field model (HMRF) and the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm on the maximum principal curvatures of the cortical surface for sulcal region segmentation, and 2) using a principal direction flow field tracking method on the cortical surface for sulcal basin segmentation. The flow field is obtained by diffusing the principal direction field on the cortical surface. The method has been successfully applied to the inner cortical surfaces of twelve healthy human brain MR images. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluation results demonstrate the validity and efficiency of the proposed method.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Information Processing in Medical Imaging - 21st International Conference, IPMI 2009, Proceedings |
| Pages | 202-214 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
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| State | Published - 2009 |
| Event | 21st International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2009 - Williamsburg, VA, United States Duration: 5 Jul 2009 → 10 Jul 2009 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 5636 LNCS |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
| Conference | 21st International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2009 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Williamsburg, VA |
| Period | 5/07/09 → 10/07/09 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Sulcal basin segmentation
- Sulcal region segmentation
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