September, 2014

Flowchart of the proposed method. Given registered atlases with variable qualities, atlas selection and statistical fusion are considered as two necessary steps to obtain a reasonable fusion estimate of the target segmentation. The SIMPLE algorithm implicitly combines these two steps to fusion selected atlases; however, more information can be incorporated to improve the atlas segmentation, and a more advanced fusion technique can be used after the atlases are selected. We propose to (1) extract a probabilistic prior of the target segmentation by context learning to regularize the atlas selection in SIMPLE and (2) use Joint Label Fusion to obtain the final segmentation while characterizing of the correlated errors from among atlases.

SIMPLE Is a Good Idea (and Better with Context Learning)

Sep. 30, 2014—Zhoubing Xu, Andrew J. Asman, Peter L. Shanahan, Richard G. Abramson, Bennett A. Landman. “SIMPLE Is a Good Idea (and Better with Context Learning)”, In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Boston, MA, September 2014. Full text: PubMed Abstract Selective and iterative method for performance level estimation (SIMPLE) is a multi-atlas segmentation technique that integrates...