Machine learning in a graph framework for subcortical segmentation

Zhihui Guo; Satyananda Kashyap; Milan Sonka; Ipek Oguz

doi:10.1117/12.2254874

24 February 2017 Machine learning in a graph framework for subcortical segmentation

Zhihui Guo, Satyananda Kashyap, Milan Sonka, Ipek Oguz

Proceedings Volume 10133, Medical Imaging 2017: Image Processing; 101330H (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254874
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Automated and reliable segmentation of subcortical structures from human brain magnetic resonance images is of great importance for volumetric and shape analyses in quantitative neuroimaging studies. However, poor boundary contrast and variable shape of these structures make the automated segmentation a tough task. We propose a 3D graph-based machine learning method, called LOGISMOS-RF, to segment the caudate and the putamen from brain MRI scans in a robust and accurate way. An atlas-based tissue classification and bias-field correction method is applied to the images to generate an initial segmentation for each structure. Then a 3D graph framework is utilized to construct a geometric graph for each initial segmentation. A locally trained random forest classifier is used to assign a cost to each graph node. The max-flow algorithm is applied to solve the segmentation problem. Evaluation was performed on a dataset of T1-weighted MRI’s of 62 subjects, with 42 images used for training and 20 images for testing. For comparison, FreeSurfer, FSL and BRAINSCut approaches were also evaluated using the same dataset. Dice overlap coefficients and surface-to-surfaces distances between the automated segmentation and expert manual segmentations indicate the results of our method are statistically significantly more accurate than the three other methods, for both the caudate (Dice: 0.89 ± 0.03) and the putamen (0.89 ± 0.03).

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Zhihui Guo, Satyananda Kashyap, Milan Sonka, and Ipek Oguz "Machine learning in a graph framework for subcortical segmentation", Proc. SPIE 10133, Medical Imaging 2017: Image Processing, 101330H (24 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254874

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