Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
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Cerebral surface extraction plays a fundamental role of computer aided diagnosis (CAD) for neonatal brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. However, cerebral sulci of the neonatal brains is complexity folded, and it is difficult to extract complete cerebral contour from MR images due to the limitation of spatial resolution and partial volume effect (PVE). This paper proposes a novel method to extract the cerebral contour based on fuzzy thick rubber model (TRM). The TRM is deformed by using fuzzy control schemes so that the digitally synthesized MR images from the deforming TRM are identical to the given MR images. By synthesizing the MR images with respect to PVE, the proposed method is able to extract the cerebral contour with sub-voxel accuracy. The proposed method was applied to 7 subjects whose revised ages were from -17 days to 34 days. The root-mean-squared-error between the extracted contour and the manually delineated contour by two physicians was 1.09 ± 0.48 mm from the truth contour. And, to demonstrate the clinical effective, gyral index was calculated using the extracted cerebral contour.