Fast fully automatic brain detection in fetal MRI using dense rotation invariant image descriptors
Open Access
- 1 April 2014
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- No. 19457928,p. 1230-1233
- https://doi.org/10.1109/isbi.2014.6868098
Abstract
Automatic detection of the fetal brain in Magnetic Resonance (MR) Images is especially difficult due to arbitrary orientation of the fetus and possible movements during the scan. In this paper, we propose a method to facilitate fully automatic brain voxel classification by means of rotation invariant volume descriptors. We calculate features for a set of 50 prenatal fast spin echo T2 volumes of the uterus and learn the appearance of the fetal brain in the feature space. We evaluate our novel classification method and show that we can localize the fetal brain with an accuracy of 100% and classify fetal brain voxels with an accuracy above 97%. Furthermore, we show how the classification process can be used for a direct segmentation of the brain by simple refinement methods within the raw MR scan data leading to a final segmentation with a Dice score above 0.90.Keywords
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