Segmentation of Brain MR Images by Using Fully Convolutional Network and Gaussian Mixture Model with Spatial Constraints

Jiawei Lai, Hongqing Zhu and Xiaofeng Ling

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2019, vol. 2019, 1-14

Abstract:

Accurate segmentation of brain tissue from magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is a critical task for diagnosis, treatment, and clinical research. In this paper, a novel algorithm (GMMD-U) that incorporates the modified full convolutional neural network U-net and Gaussian-Dirichlet mixture model (GMMD) with spatial constraints is presented. The proposed GMMD-U considers the local spatial relationships by assuming that the prior probability obeys the Dirichlet distribution. Specifically, GMMD is applied for extracting brain tissue that has a distinct intensity region and modified U-net is exploited to correct the wrong-classification areas caused by GMMD or other conventional approaches. The proposed GMMD-U is designed to take advantage of the statistical model-based segmentation techniques and deep neural network. We evaluate the performance of GMMD-U on a publicly available brain MRI dataset by comparing it with several existing algorithms, and the results reported reveal that the proposed framework can accurately detect the brain tissue from MRIs. The proposed learning-based integrated framework could be effective for brain tissue segmentation, which will be helpful for surgeons in brain disease diagnosis.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1155/2019/4625371

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