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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-4-29
pubmed:abstractText
Segmentation of medical images is commonly formulated as a supervised learning problem, where manually labeled training data are summarized using a parametric atlas. Summarizing the data alleviates the computational burden at the expense of possibly losing valuable information on inter-subject variability. This paper presents a novel framework for Supervised Nonparametric Image Parcellation (SNIP). SNIP models the intensity and label images as samples of a joint distribution estimated from the training data in a non-parametric fashion. By capitalizing on recently developed fast and robust pairwise image alignment tools, SNIP employs the entire training data to segment a new image via Expectation Maximization. The use of multiple registrations increases robustness to occasional registration failures. We report experiments on 39 volumetric brain MRI scans with manual labels for the white matter, cortex and subcortical structures. SNIP yields better segmentation than state-of-the-art algorithms in multiple regions of interest.
pubmed:grant
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/P41 RR013218-030002, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/P41 RR014075-086765, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/P41-RR13218, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/P41-RR14075, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 EB001550, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 EB001550-02, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 NS051826-03, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 NS052585-01, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 NS052585-01A1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 RR016594-01A1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 RR16594-01A1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01-NS051826, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01EB006758, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/U24 RR021382-02, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/U24-RR021382, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/U54 EB005149-03, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/U54 EB005149-050001, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/U54-EB005149
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:author
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1075-83
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-9-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Supervised nonparametric image parcellation.
pubmed:affiliation
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural