Simultaneous MAP estimation of inhomogeneity and segmentation of brain tissues from MR images.
Wanqing LiChris de SilverYianni AttikiouzelPublished in: ICIP (2) (2005)
Keyphrases
- brain tissue
- mr images
- map estimation
- brain mr images
- accurate segmentation
- medical images
- partial volume
- magnetic resonance images
- bias field
- brain tumors
- maximum a posteriori
- tissue segmentation
- magnetic resonance
- markov random field
- mri data
- gray matter
- mri images
- automatic segmentation
- brain structures
- intensity inhomogeneity
- maximum likelihood
- brain mri
- intensity distribution
- image data
- nonrigid registration
- mr brain images
- segmentation algorithm
- energy function
- region growing
- cerebrospinal fluid
- textured images
- white matter
- em algorithm
- multiple sclerosis
- brain images
- noisy images
- image segmentation
- level set
- expectation maximization
- medical image analysis
- morphological operations
- maximum a posteriori probability
- low contrast
- medical imaging
- fully automatic
- shape prior
- atlas construction
- deformable registration
- partial volume effects