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Subject-specific atlas for automatic brain tissue segmentation of neonatal magnetic resonance images

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العنوان: Subject-specific atlas for automatic brain tissue segmentation of neonatal magnetic resonance images
المؤلفون: Negar Noorizadeh, Kamran Kazemi, Seyedeh Masoumeh Taji, Habibollah Danyali, Ardalan Aarabi
المصدر: Scientific Reports, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2024)
بيانات النشر: Nature Portfolio, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Neonate, Brain tissue segmentation, Multi-atlas, Random forest, Subject-specific atlas, Expectation maximization, Medicine, Science
الوصف: Abstract Developing advanced systems for 3D brain tissue segmentation from neonatal magnetic resonance (MR) images is vital for newborn structural analysis. However, automatic segmentation of neonatal brain tissues is challenging due to smaller head size and inverted T1/T2 tissue contrast compared to adults. In this work, a subject-specific atlas based technique is presented for segmentation of gray matter (GM), white matter (WM), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from neonatal MR images. It involves atlas selection, subject-specific atlas creation using random forest (RF) classifier, and brain tissue segmentation using the expectation maximization-Markov random field (EM-MRF) method. To increase the segmentation accuracy, different tissue intensity- and gradient-based features were used. Evaluation on 40 neonatal MR images (gestational age of 37–44 weeks) demonstrated an overall accuracy of 94.3% and an average Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 0.945 (GM), 0.947 (WM), and 0.912 (CSF). Compared to multi-atlas segmentation methods like SEGMA and EM-MRF with multiple atlases, our method improved accuracy by up to 4%, particularly in complex tissue regions. Our proposed method allows accurate brain tissue segmentation, a crucial step in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications including brain surface reconstruction and realistic head model creation in neonates.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2045-2322
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-69995-z
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/27e9985560c541d6acb4fe1ddca42ff3
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.27e9985560c541d6acb4fe1ddca42ff3
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20452322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-69995-z