• DocumentCode
    3202681
  • Title

    Skull stripping and automatic segmentation of brain MRI using seed growth and threshold techniques

  • Author

    Shanthi, K.J. ; Kumar, M. Sasi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Comm., Univ. of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    25-28 Nov. 2007
  • Firstpage
    422
  • Lastpage
    426
  • Abstract
    Segmentation of human brain from MRI scan slices without human intervention is the objective of this paper. A simple and accurate method is developed for extracting the brain tissues from the T1 weighted MR Images. The DICOM images are used for segmenting. A hybrid of threshold and seed growth techniques are used in classifying the brain tissues into white matter (WM), gray matter (GM) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; biomedical MRI; brain; image segmentation; medical image processing; DICOM image; brain MRI; human brain segmentation; seed growth technique; skull stripping; threshold technique; Biological neural networks; Brain; Cranial; Educational institutions; Histograms; Humans; Image segmentation; Intelligent systems; Magnetic resonance imaging; Skull;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent and Advanced Systems, 2007. ICIAS 2007. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kuala Lumpur
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1355-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1356-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658421
  • Filename
    4658421