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Sub-cortical brain structure segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) has attracted the interest of the research community for a long time because morphological changes in these structures are related to different neurodegenerative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Kaisar Kushibar , Sergi Valverde , Sandra Gonzalez-Villa , Jose Bernal , Mariano Cabezas , Arnau Oliver , Xavier Llado

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely used in the pathological and functional studies of the brain, such as epilepsy, tumor diagnosis, etc. Automated accurate brain tissue segmentation like cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF), gray matter (GM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Yao Sun , Yang Deng , Yue Xu , Shuo Zhang , Mingwang Zhu , Kehong Yuan

This article introduces a new methodology for reconstructing the white matter fiber pathways of brain in diffusion MRI. Usually, the signal intensity values will be lesser in the direction of higher diffusivity. The proposed approach picks…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-26 Ashishi Puri , Sanjeev Kumar

Purpose: To implement a brain segmentation pipeline based on convolutional neural networks, which rapidly segments 3D volumes into 27 anatomical structures. To provide an extensive, comparative study of segmentation performance on various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Jonathan Zopes , Moritz Platscher , Silvio Paganucci , Christian Federau

Although the segmentation of brain structures in ultrasound helps initialize image based registration, assist brain shift compensation, and provides interventional decision support, the task of segmenting grey and white matter in cranial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Beatrice Demiray , Julia Rackerseder , Stevica Bozhinoski , Nassir Navab

Segmentation of brain structures on MRI is the primary step for further quantitative analysis of brain diseases. Manual segmentation is still considered the gold standard in terms of accuracy; however, such data is extremely time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Mengyu Li , Magnus Magnusson , Thilo van Eimeren , Lotta M. Ellingsen

Images with abnormal brain anatomy produce problems for automatic segmentation techniques, and as a result poor ROI detection affects both quantitative measurements and visual assessment of perfusion data. This paper presents a new approach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-19 Svitlana M Alkhimova

Image segmentation some of the challenging issues on brain magnetic resonance image tumor segmentation caused by the weak correlation between magnetic resonance imaging intensity and anatomical meaning.With the objective of utilizing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Narkhede Sachin G. , Vaishali Khairnar , Sujata Kadu

Brain extraction in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is an important segmentation step in many neuroimaging preprocessing pipelines. Image segmentation is one of the research fields in which deep learning had the biggest impact in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Lukas Fisch , Stefan Zumdick , Carlotta Barkhau , Daniel Emden , Jan Ernsting , Ramona Leenings , Kelvin Sarink , Nils R. Winter , Benjamin Risse , Udo Dannlowski , Tim Hahn

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a type of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique sensitised to the diffusivity of water molecules, offering the capability to inspect tissue microstructures and is the only in-vivo method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sheng Chen , Zihao Tang , Mariano Cabezas , Xinyi Wang , Arkiev D'Souza , Michael Barnett , Fernando Calamante , Weidong Cai , Chenyu Wang

We present DeepTract, a deep-learning framework for estimating white matter fibers orientation and streamline tractography. We adopt a data-driven approach for fiber reconstruction from diffusion weighted images (DWI), which does not assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Itay Benou , Tammy Riklin-Raviv

The fully automated and relatively accurate method of brain tissues segmentation on T2-weighted magnetic resonance perfusion images is proposed. Segmentation with this method provides a possibility to obtain perfusion region of interest on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 S. M. Alkhimova , A. P. Krenevych

Brain segmentation is a fundamental first step in neuroimage analysis. In the case of fetal MRI, it is particularly challenging and important due to the arbitrary orientation of the fetus, organs that surround the fetal head, and…

Brain nuclei are clusters of anatomically distinct neurons that serve as important hubs for processing and relaying information in various neural circuits. Fine-scale parcellation of the brain nuclei is vital for a comprehensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Haolin He , Ce Zhu , Le Zhang , Yipeng Liu , Xiao Xu , Yuqian Chen , Leo Zekelman , Jarrett Rushmore , Yogesh Rathi , Nikos Makris , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a novel modality of magnetic resonance imaging that allows noninvasive mapping of the brain's white matter. A particular map derived from DTI measurements is a map of water principal diffusion directions,…

Applications · Statistics 2008-12-18 Armin Schwartzman , Robert F. Dougherty , Jonathan E. Taylor

Computed tomography imaging is well accepted for its imaging speed, image contrast & resolution and cost. Thus it has wide use in detection and diagnosis of brain diseases. But unfortunately reported works on CT segmentation is not very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Soumi Ray , Vinod Kumar , Chirag Ahuja , Niranjan Khandelwal

The study of brain differences across Eastern and Western populations provides vital insights for understanding potential cultural and genetic influences on cognition and mental health. Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography is an important tool…

Neuroanatomical segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain is a prerequisite for volume, thickness and shape measurements. This work introduces a new highly accurate and versatile method based on 3D convolutional neural…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-07 Philip Novosad , Vladimir Fonov , D. Louis Collins

Fetal brain segmentation is an important first step for slice-level motion correction and slice-to-volume reconstruction in fetal MRI. Fast and accurate segmentation of the fetal brain on fetal MRI is required to achieve real-time fetal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-05 Razieh Faghihpirayesh , Davood Karimi , Deniz Erdogmus , Ali Gholipour

Gray matter (GM) tissue changes have been associated with a wide range of neurological disorders and was also recently found relevant as a biomarker for disability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The ability to automatically segment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Christian S. Perone , Evan Calabrese , Julien Cohen-Adad