A New Fast Chinese Visible Human Brain Skull Stripping Method

Image data of the entire cadaver from the chinese visible human is being used to produce three-dimensional images and software for human anatomy research. The anatomy of human brain is more complicated. With the effect of noise, bias field, and fake grey matters, it is a challenging task to build a digital three dimensional representation of a human brain. In order to obtain more accurate representation, the brain regions must be separated from highly variable background regions to obtain a suitable stack of segmentation images. We use adapted Gauss mixture model as a promising starting point for a sophisticated segmentation framework of color images within 3-dimensions. The model can classify images meanwhile estimate the bias field. For the effect of the fake grey matters, a proper image preprocessing strategy turned out to be necessary for accurate and robust segmentation results. We present a complete high resolution and accurate segmentation of the CVH brain. Based on these images, 3D representation is presented.