Journal
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
Volume 168, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114262
Keywords
Brain tumor; Sparse constraint; Level set; Image segmentation
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61701101, 61973093, U1713216, 61901098, 61971118]
- Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities of China [N2026005, N181602014, N2026004, N2026006, N2026001, N2011001]
- Fundamental Research Fund for LiaoNing Province, China [2020JH2/10100040]
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This study introduces an automatic sparse constrained level set method for brain tumor segmentation in MR images, achieving high accuracy and stability through the construction of a sparse representation model and an energy function based on the level set method.
Brain tumor segmentation using Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging technology plays a significant role in computer-aided brain tumor diagnosis. However, when applying classic segmentation methods, limitations such as inhomogeneous intensity, complex physiological structure and blurred tissues boundaries in brain MR images usually lead to unsatisfactory results. To address these issues, this paper proposes an automatic sparse constrained level set method to realize the brain tumor segmentation in MR images. By studying brain tumor images, this method finds out common characteristics of brain tumors' shape and constructs a sparse representation model. By considering this model as a prior constraint, an energy function based on level set method is constructed. In experiments, the proposed method can achieve an average accuracy of 96.20% for the MR images from the dataset Brats2017 and performs better than the others. With lower false positive rate and stronger robustness, the experimental results show that the proposed method can segment brain tumor from MR image accurately and stably.
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