Conference proceeding
Automated image segmentation using support vector machines
Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.6512(1), pp.65122S-65122S-9
Medical Imaging 2007: Image Processing
03/08/2007
DOI: 10.1117/12.705053
Abstract
Neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental diseases demonstrate problems associated with brain maturation and aging. Automated methods to delineate brain structures of interest are required to analyze large amounts of imaging data like that being collected in several on going multi-center studies. We have previously reported on using artificial neural networks (ANN) to define subcortical brain structures including the thalamus (0.88), caudate (0.85) and the putamen (0.81). In this work, apriori probability information was generated using Thirion's demons registration algorithm. The input vector consisted of apriori probability, spherical coordinates, and an iris of surrounding signal intensity values. We have applied the support vector machine (SVM) machine learning algorithm to automatically segment subcortical and cerebellar regions using the same input vector information. SVM architecture was derived from the ANN framework. Training was completed using a radial-basis function kernel with gamma equal to 5.5. Training was performed using 15,000 vectors collected from 15 training images in approximately 10 minutes. The resulting support vectors were applied to delineate 10 images not part of the training set. Relative overlap calculated for the subcortical structures was 0.87 for the thalamus, 0.84 for the caudate, 0.84 for the putamen, and 0.72 for the hippocampus. Relative overlap for the cerebellar lobes ranged from 0.76 to 0.86. The reliability of the SVM based algorithm was similar to the inter-rater reliability between manual raters and can be achieved without rater intervention.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Automated image segmentation using support vector machines
- Creators
- Stephanie Powell - The Univ. of UtahVincent A Magnotta - The Univ. of IowaNancy C Andreasen - The Univ. of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.6512(1), pp.65122S-65122S-9
- Conference
- Medical Imaging 2007: Image Processing
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.705053
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/08/2007
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984066146402771
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