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Deep neural networks for anatomical brain segmentation

de Brebisson, Alexandre, Montana, Giovanni·2015·2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)

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We present a novel approach to automatically segment magnetic resonance (MR) images of the human brain into anatomical regions. Our methodology is based on a deep artificial neural network that assigns each voxel in an MR image of the brain to its corresponding anatomical region. The inputs of the network capture information at different scales around the voxel of interest: 3D and orthogonal 2D intensity patches capture a local spatial context while downscaled large 2D orthogonal patches and distances to the regional centroids enforce global spatial consistency. Contrary to commonly used segmentation methods, our technique does not require any non-linear registration of the MR images. To benchmark our model, we used the dataset provided for the MICCAI 2012 challenge on multi-atlas labelling, which consists of 35 manually segmented MR images of the brain. We obtained competitive results (mean dice coefficient 0.725, error rate 0.163) showing the potential of our approach. To our knowledge, our technique is the first to tackle the anatomical segmentation of the whole brain using deep neural networks.

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Authors
de Brebisson, A., & Montana, G.
Affiliations
St Thomas' Hospital (GB)
Venue
2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2015-06
Pages
20-28
OpenAlex
W1910109443
Cited by
330
References
21
Citations by year
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FWCI
13.81
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) (publishedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Brain Tumor Detection and Classification
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Medical Imaging and Analysis
Keywords
brain segmentation, magnetic resonance imaging, deep neural network, spatial context, multi-scale features

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