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Organ localization is an important topic in medical imaging in aid of cancer treatment and diagnosis. An example are the pharmacokinetic model calibration methods based on a reference tissue, where a pectoral muscle delineation in breast MRI is needed to detect malignancy signs. Atlas-based segmentation has been proven to be powerful in brain MRI. This is the first attempt to apply an atlas-based approach to segment breast in T1 weighted MR images. The atlas consists of 5 structures (fatty and dense tissues, heart, lungs and pectoral muscle). It has been used in a Bayesian segmentation framework to delineate the mentioned structures. Global and local registration have been compared, where global registration showed the best results in terms of accuracy and speed. Overall, a Dice Similarity Coefficient value of 0.8 has been obtained which shows the validity of our approach to Breast MRI segmentation.
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Gubern-Mérida, A., Kallenberg, M., Martí, R., Karssemeijer, N. (2011). Multi-class Probabilistic Atlas-Based Segmentation Method in Breast MRI. In: Vitrià, J., Sanches, J.M., Hernández, M. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6669. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21257-4_82
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