A learning based algorithm for automatic extraction of the cortical sulci
Abstract
This paper presents a learning based method for automatic extraction of the major cortical sulci from MRI volumes or extracted surfaces. Instead of using a few pre-defined rules such as the mean curvature properties, to detect the major sulci, the algorithm learns a discriminative model by selecting and combining features from a large pool of candidates. We used the Probabilistic Boosting Tree algorithm [16] to learn the model, which implicitly discovers and combines rules based on manually annotated sulci traced by neuroanatomists. The algorithm almost has no parameters to tune and is fast because of the adoption of integral volume and 3D Haar filters. For a given approximately registered MRI volume, the algorithm computes the probability of how likely it is that each voxel lies on a major sulcus curve. Dynamic programming is then applied to extract the curve based on the probability map and a shape prior. Because the algorithm can be applied to MRI volumes directly, there is no need to perform preprocessing such as tissue segmentation or mapping to a canonical space. The learning aspect makes the approach flexible and it also works on extracted cortical surfaces.
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/11866565_85
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Recommended Citation
Zheng, Songfeng, Zhuowen Tu, Alan L. Yuille, Allan L. Reiss, Rebecca A. Dutton, Agatha D. Lee, Albert M. Galaburda, Paul M. Thompson, Ivo Dinov, and Arthur W. Toga. "A learning based algorithm for automatic extraction of the cortical sulci." In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, pp. 695-703. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.
Journal Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
