Atlas pre-selection strategies to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of multi-atlas brain segmentation tools.

ABSTRACT: Multi-atlas brain segmentation of human brain MR images allows quantification research in structural neuroimaging. To achieve high accuracy and computational efficiency of segmentation relies on a custom subset of atlases for each target subject. However, the criterion for atlas pre-selection remains an open question. In this study, two atlas pre-selection approaches based on location-based feature matching were proposed and compared to random and mutual information-based methods using a database of 47 atlases. A varying number of atlases ranked top with hierarchical structural granularity were compared using Dice overlap. The results indicated that the proposed 4L approach consistently led to the highest level of accuracy at a given number of employed atlases in both adult and geriatric p

SUBMITTER: Ye C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6063392 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature