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Multi-Atlas Image Soft Segmentation via Computation of the Expected Label Value

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Abstract:

The use of multiple atlases is common in medical image segmentation. This typically requires deformable registration of the atlases (or the average atlas) to the new imag...Show More

Abstract:

The use of multiple atlases is common in medical image segmentation. This typically requires deformable registration of the atlases (or the average atlas) to the new image, which is computationally expensive and susceptible to entrapment in local optima. We propose to instead consider the probability of all possible atlas-to-image transformations and compute the expected label value (ELV), thereby not relying merely on the transformation deemed “optimal” by the registration method. Moreover, we do so without actually performing deformable registration, thus avoiding the associated computational costs. We evaluate our ELV computation approach by applying it to brain, liver, and pancreas segmentation on datasets of magnetic resonance and computed tomography images.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging ( Volume: 40, Issue: 6, June 2021)
Page(s): 1702 - 1710
Date of Publication: 09 March 2021

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PubMed ID: 33687840

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