TY - GEN
T1 - A novel anatomical structure segmentation method of CT head images
AU - Zang, Xiaojun
AU - Yang, Jian
AU - Weng, Dongdong
AU - Liu, Yue
AU - Wang, Yongtian
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In this paper, a method is developed for anatomical structures segmentation based on CT head images. The segmented structure can be used for image-guided surgery navigations. In our method, intensity rescaling, region growing, fuzzy c-means and mathematical morphology are combined and used systematically. Due to the low contrast of the CT images, intensity rescaling is applied to the images to enhance the contrast. Region growing is used to extract the intracranial area from the enhanced images. Then, fuzzy c-means is adopted to segment the intracranial images of brain matter and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Mathematical morphology is used to correct the pre-calculated images and obtain accurate brain matter and CSF segmentations. The experiments show that the algorithm can obtain good brain matter and CSF segmentations from CT head images.
AB - In this paper, a method is developed for anatomical structures segmentation based on CT head images. The segmented structure can be used for image-guided surgery navigations. In our method, intensity rescaling, region growing, fuzzy c-means and mathematical morphology are combined and used systematically. Due to the low contrast of the CT images, intensity rescaling is applied to the images to enhance the contrast. Region growing is used to extract the intracranial area from the enhanced images. Then, fuzzy c-means is adopted to segment the intracranial images of brain matter and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Mathematical morphology is used to correct the pre-calculated images and obtain accurate brain matter and CSF segmentations. The experiments show that the algorithm can obtain good brain matter and CSF segmentations from CT head images.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957792389&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICCME.2010.5558821
DO - 10.1109/ICCME.2010.5558821
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77957792389
SN - 9781424468430
T3 - 2010 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME2010
SP - 316
EP - 320
BT - 2010 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME2010
Y2 - 13 July 2010 through 15 July 2010
ER -