Segmentation of the skull in 3D human MR images using mathematical morphology.
Belma DogdasDavid W. ShattuckRichard M. LeahyPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2002)
Keyphrases
- mathematical morphology
- mr images
- medical images
- cerebrospinal fluid
- magnetic resonance
- watershed transform
- brain mr images
- partial volume
- skull stripping
- brain tumors
- image analysis
- mri images
- magnetic resonance images
- brain structures
- morphological operators
- brain images
- intensity inhomogeneity
- segmentation result
- cardiac magnetic resonance
- brain tissue
- mid sagittal plane
- bias field
- edge detection
- gray scale
- image processing
- ct images
- binary images
- morphological operations
- mri data
- mr brain images
- mr imaging
- medical imaging
- adaptive thresholding
- partial volume effects
- atlas construction
- gray matter
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- structuring elements
- image data
- anatomical structures
- medical image analysis
- multiscale
- random walker
- pattern recognition
- co occurrence
- magnetic resonance imaging
- image registration
- level set
- image enhancement
- segmented images
- partial differential equations