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Multimodal MR Brain Segmentation Using Bayesian-based Adaptive Mean-Shift (BAMS)

Mahmood, Qaiser, Alipoor, Mohammad, Chodorowski, Artur, Mehnert1, Andrew, Persson, Mikael
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3446
New: Prefer using the following doi: https://doi.org/10.54294/fefo4q
Published in The MIDAS Journal - MICCAI 2013 Workshop: The MICCAI Grand Challenge on MR Brain Image Segmentation (MRBrainS13) .
Submitted by Qaiser Mahmood on 2013-10-28 17:20:42.

In this paper, we validate our proposed segmentation algorithm called Bayesian-based adaptive mean-shift (BAMS) on real mul-timodal MR images provided by the MRBrainS challenge. BAMS is a fully automatic unsupervised segmentation algorithm. It is based on the adaptive mean shift wherein the adaptive bandwidth of the kernel for each feature point is estimated using our proposed Bayesian approach [1]. BAMS is designed to segment the brain into three tissues; white matter (WM), gray matter (GM) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The performance of the algorithm is evaluated relative to the manual segmentation (ground truth). The results of our proposed algorithm show the average Dice index 0.8377±0.036 for the WM, 0.7637±0.038 for the GM and 0.6835 ±0.023 for the CSF.