The 3-dimensional clumsy painter method for extracting brain regions from MRI

Author

Ikeguchi, Tohru ; Satoh, Masamune ; Matozaki, Takeshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Electron., Sci. Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

1073

Abstract

In medical image processing, it is desirable to extract interested regions from images for reconstructing 3-dimensional structures. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm called the three dimensional clumsy painter method for extracting brain tissues from MRI with the 3-dimensional translation rule and the gray scale translation condition. As a result, it is shown that the new method exhibits higher performance on removing uninterested regions than the conventional method, such as morphological filterings

Keywords

biomedical NMR; brain; feature extraction; image reconstruction; image segmentation; medical image processing; 3-dimensional translation rule; 3D clumsy painter method; 3D structure reconstruction; MRI; brain regions extraction; brain tissues; gray scale translation condition; medical image processing; morphological filtering comparison; optimal shape; Biomedical image processing; Brain; Computed tomography; Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society; Filtering algorithms; Image reconstruction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Roentgenium; Shape; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.652714

Filename

652714