期刊
SIGNAL IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING
卷 13, 期 7, 页码 1421-1429出版社
SPRINGER LONDON LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s11760-019-01491-8
关键词
Anisotropic spatial information; Asymmetric distribution; Multi-phase level set; Intensity inhomogeneity; Magnetic resonance image segmentation
资金
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [61672291, 61701222]
- Nature Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China [17KJB510026]
Magnetic resonance (MR) image segmentation plays an essential role for brain disease diagnosis; however, suffered from low contrast, intensity inhomogeneity, noise and asymmetry of the intensity distribution, segmentation methods are always difficult to achieve satisfactory results. In this paper, we propose a novel level set method for brain MR image segmentation with consideration of these problems. We firstly generate a new region descriptor based on asymmetric Gaussian distributions in order to fit different shapes of observed nonsymmetric data. Secondly, we utilize the spatial distance and intensity similarity information of neighborhood pixels to extract local anisotropic spatial information to balance the noise reduction and detail preservation. After that, the extracted information and bias field information are combined to improve the asymmetric region descriptor utilized in the level set framework. Finally, we define a maximum likelihood energy functional on the whole image, integrating the local anisotropic spatial information, the bias field information and the asymmetric distributions. The experimental results on synthetic and clinical images demonstrated that our method can achieve desirable performance in spite of the severe noise and intensity inhomogeneity.
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