Combining stationary wavelet transform and self-organizing maps for brain MR image segmentation

Authors:
Ayşe Demirhan;İnan Güler
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Gazi University, 06500 Teknikokullar, Ankara, Turkey;Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Gazi University, 06500 Teknikokullar, Ankara, Turkey
Venue:
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This study presents an image segmentation system that automatically segments and labels T1-weighted brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. The method is based on a combination of unsupervised learning algorithm of the self-organizing maps (SOM) and supervised learning vector quantization (LVQ) methods. Stationary wavelet transform (SWT) is applied to the images to obtain multiresolution information for distinguishing different tissues. Statistical information of the different tissues is extracted by applying spatial filtering to the coefficients of SWT. A multidimensional feature vector is formed by combining SWT coefficients and their statistical features. This feature vector is used as input to the SOM. SOM is used to segment images in a competitive unsupervised approach and an LVQ system is used for fine-tuning. Results are evaluated using Tanimoto similarity index and are compared with manually segmented images. Quantitative comparisons of our system with the other methods on real brain MR images using Tanimoto similarity index demonstrate that our system shows better segmentation performance for the gray matter while it gives average results for white matter.