Nonlocal patch-based label fusion for hippocampus segmentation
MICCAI'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention: Part III
Segmenting images by combining selected atlases on manifold
MICCAI'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention - Volume Part III
Confidence-guided sequential label fusion for multi-atlas based segmentation
MICCAI'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention - Volume Part III
Logarithm odds maps for shape representation
MICCAI'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Volume Part II
Using Spanning Graphs for Efficient Image Registration
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Multi-Atlas Segmentation with Joint Label Fusion
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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The maturity of registration methods, in combination with the increasing processing power of computers, has made multi-atlas segmentation methods practical. The problem of merging the deformed label maps from the atlases is known as label fusion. Even though label fusion has been well studied for intramodality scenarios, it remains relatively unexplored when the nature of the target data is multimodal or when its modality is different from that of the atlases. In this paper, we review the literature on label fusion methods and also present an extension of our previously published algorithm to the general case in which the target data are multimodal. The method is based on a generative model that exploits the consistency of voxel intensities within the target scan based on the current estimate of the segmentation. Using brain MRI scans acquired with a multiecho FLASH sequence, we compare the method with majority voting, statistical-atlas-based segmentation, the popular package FreeSurfer and an adaptive local multi-atlas segmentation method. The results show that our approach produces highly accurate segmentations (Dice 86.3% across 22 brain structures of interest), outperforming the competing methods.