Cited by 108Brain Tumor Detection and ClassificationMedical Image Segmentation TechniquesRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Brain Tumour Segmentation based on Extremely Randomized Forest with high-level features

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Pinto, Adriano, Pereira, Sergio, Correia, Higino, Oliveira, J., Rasteiro, Deolinda M. L. D., Silva, Carlos A.·2015·2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)

Abstract

Gliomas are among the most common and aggressive brain tumours. Segmentation of these tumours is important for surgery and treatment planning, but also for follow-up evaluations. However, it is a difficult task, given that its size and locations are variable, and the delineation of all tumour tissue is not trivial, even with all the different modalities of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). We propose a discriminative and fully automatic method for the segmentation of gliomas, using appearance- and context-based features to feed an Extremely Randomized Forest (Extra-Trees). Some of these features are computed over a non-linear transformation of the image. The proposed method was evaluated using the publicly available Challenge database from BraTS 2013, having obtained a Dice score of 0.83, 0.78 and 0.73 for the complete tumour, and the core and the enhanced regions, respectively. Our results are competitive, when compared against other results reported using the same database.

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Authors
Pinto, A., Pereira, S., Correia, H., Oliveira, J., Rasteiro, D. M. L. D., & Silva, C. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Minho (PT)
  • Universidade Politécnica de Coimbra (PT)
Venue
2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2015-08
Volume
2015
Pages
3037-3040
ISSN
2375-7477 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2293130453
Cited by
108
References
14
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3
FWCI
10.48
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion)
  • Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Brain Tumor Detection and Classification
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
Keywords
glioma segmentation, brain tumor segmentation, high-level features, magnetic resonance imaging, automatic segmentation
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Brain Neoplasms, Glioma, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Software

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