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Atlas-based segmentation of neonatal brain MR images using a gray matter enhancing step

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We propose an atlas-based segmentation framework for brain magnetic resonance images, specially designed to fit neonatal images, which pose additional difficulties due to the poor differentiation between the gray and white matter. The main contribution of our work consists of a gray matter enhancing step, which is applied to either the T1w or T2w modalities after standard preprocessing and alignment steps are carried out. Our enhancing step uses Hessian and box filters for the cortical gray matter and takes advantage of both local and non-local information for the subcortical gray matter. We consider four classes, and our framework has been evaluated using publicly available data from the NeoBrainS12 challenge.

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This work was supported in part by CONACYT (Mexico), Grant 258033.

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  1. Mathematics Research Center, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

    Ulises Rodríguez-Domínguez, Oscar Dalmau & Omar Ocegueda

  2. Institute for Neurobiology, UNAM, Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico

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Rodríguez-Domínguez, U., Dalmau, O., Ocegueda, O. et al. Atlas-based segmentation of neonatal brain MR images using a gray matter enhancing step. SIViP 12, 633–640 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-017-1202-8

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