Thalamus segmentation from diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging.
Thalamus segmentation from diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging.
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DOI:
10.1155/2007/90216
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发表时间:
2007
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
Xi, Yongjian
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作者:
Duan, Ye;Li, Xiaoling;Xi, Yongjian
We propose a semi-automatic thalamus and thalamus nuclei segmentation algorithm from Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DT-MRI) based on the mean-shift algorithm. Comparing with existing thalamus segmentation algorithms which are mainly based on K-means algorithm, our mean-shift based algorithm is more flexible and adaptive. It does not assume a Gaussian distribution or a fixed number of clusters. Furthermore, the single parameter in the mean-shift based algorithm supports hierarchical clustering naturally.