Medical image segmentation based on guided filtering and multi-atlas
WEN Rui
CHEN Hongwen
ZHANG Lei
LU Zhentai
Abstract：A novel medical automatic image segmentation strategy based on guided filtering and multi-atlas is proposed to achieve accurate, smooth, robust, and reliable segmentation. This framework consists of 4 elements: the multi- atlas registration, which uses the atlas prior information;the label fusion, in which the similarity measure of the registration is used as the weight to fuse the warped label;the guided filtering, which uses the local information of the target image to correct the registration errors; and the threshold approaches used to obtain the segment result. The experimental results showed part among the 15 brain MRI images used to segment the hippocampus region, the proposed method achieved a median Dice coefficient of 86%on the left hippocampus and 87.4%on the right hippocampus. Compared with the traditional label fusion algorithm, the proposed algorithm outperforms the common brain image segmentation methods with a good efficiency and accuracy.
Keywords：image segmentationguided filteringmulti-atlas registrationatlas priorlabel fusionhippocampus
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 1263-1267 )