Homogeneity Measures for Multiphase Level Set Segmentation of Brain MRI

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Title:: Homogeneity Measures for Multiphase Level Set Segmentation of Brain MRI
Author(s):: Angelini, Elsa D.
Song, Ting
Laine, Andrew F.
Date:: 2006
Type:: Articles
Department:: Biomedical Engineering
Permanent URL:: http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:9461
Book/Journal Title:: 2006 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Macro to Nano: Proceedings: April 6-9, 2006, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Publisher:: IEEE
Publisher Location:: Piscataway, N.J.
Abstract:: This paper presents a new homogeneity measure for variational segmentation with multiple level set functions. We propose to modify the quadratic homogeneity measure to trade off the convexity of the function against a faster rate of convergence. We tested in two series of experiments the performance of this new homogeneity force at converging to appropriate partitioning of brain MRI data sets, over a large range of image spatial resolution and image quality, in terms of tissue homogeneity and contrast.
Subject(s):: Biomedical engineering
DOI:: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2006.1625024