Background: Accurate brain tissue segmentation from magnetic resonance (MR) images is an important step in analysis of cerebral images. There are software packages which are used for brain segmentation. These packages usually contain a set of skull stripping, intensity non-uniformity (bias) correction and segmentation routines. Thus, assessment of the quality of the segmented gray matter (GM), ...

‎this paper presents an application of partial differential equations(pdes) for the segmentation of abdominal and thoracic aortic in cta datasets. an important challenge in reliably detecting aortic is the need to overcome problems associated with intensity inhomogeneities. level sets are part of an important class of methods that utilize partial differential equations (pdes) and have been exte...

Introduction: Brain tumors such as glioma are among the most aggressive lesions, which result in a very short life expectancy in patients. Image segmentation is highly essential in medical image analysis with applications, particularly in clinical practices to treat brain tumors. Accurate segmentation of magnetic resonance data is crucial for diagnostic purposes, planning surgical treatments, a...

Introduction: Segmentation of brain images especially from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an essential requirement in medical imaging since the tissues, edges, and boundaries between them are ambiguous and difficult to detect, due to the proximity of the brightness levels of the images. Material and Methods: In this paper, the graph-base...

a multi‑parameter quantification method was implemented to quantify retinal vascular injuries in microscopic images of clinically relevant eye diseases. this method was applied to wholemount retinal trypsin digest images of diabetic akita/+, and bcl‑2 knocked out mice models. five unique features of retinal vasculature were extracted to monitor early structural changes and retinopathy, as well ...

segmentation and three‑dimensional (3d) visualization of teeth in dental computerized tomography (ct) images are of dentists’ requirements for both abnormalities diagnosis and the treatments such as dental implant and orthodontic planning. on the other hand, dental ct image segmentation is a difficult process because of the specific characteristics of the tooth’s structure. this paper presents ...

to investigate the effect of preprocessing techniques including contrast enhancement and illumination correction on retinal imagequality, a comparative study was carried out. we studied and implemented a few illumination correction and contrast enhancementtechniques on color retinal images to find out the best technique for optimum image enhancement. to compare and choose thebest illumination c...

Ray Casting is a direct volume rendering technique for visualizing 3D arrays of sampled data. It has vital applications in medical and biological imaging. Nevertheless, it is inherently open to cluttered classification results. It suffers from overlapping transfer function values and lacks a sufficiently powerful voxel parsing mechanism for object distinction. In this work, we are proposing an ...

we first describe how to “fuzzify” the estimated binary columns to create a [0,1]-valued column. werefer to this [0,1] -valued column as the soft segmentation column of the noisy spectrogram column.similarly to the collection of soft segmentation columns as the soft segmentation image, or simply asthe soft segmentation. the band-dependent posterior probability that the hard segmentation columnv...

introduction this research addresses the automatic extraction of alluvial fans using four methods of segmentation from satellite data. this segmentation method divides images into partitions. it is typically used to recognize objects or other relevant purposes in digital images (fu, 2013:3260). alluvial fans have always been a landform that attracts human because they are suitable areas for liv...