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A Fully Automatic Procedure for Brain Tumor Segmentation from Multi-Spectral MRI Records Using Ensemble Learning and Atlas-Based Data Enhancement

Győrfi, Ágnes and Szilágyi, László and Kovács, Levente (2021) A Fully Automatic Procedure for Brain Tumor Segmentation from Multi-Spectral MRI Records Using Ensemble Learning and Atlas-Based Data Enhancement. Applied Sciences, 11 (2). No.-564. ISSN 2076-3417

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Abstract

The accurate and reliable segmentation of gliomas from magnetic resonance image (MRI) data has an important role in diagnosis, intervention planning, and monitoring the tumor’s evolution during and after therapy. Segmentation has serious anatomical obstacles like the great variety of the tumor’s location, size, shape, and appearance and the modified position of normal tissues. Other phenomena like intensity inhomogeneity and the lack of standard intensity scale in MRI data represent further difficulties. This paper proposes a fully automatic brain tumor segmentation procedure that attempts to handle all the above problems. Having its foundations on the MRI data provided by the MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenges, the procedure consists of three main phases. The first pre-processing phase prepares the MRI data to be suitable for supervised classification, by attempting to fix missing data, suppressing the intensity inhomogeneity, normalizing the histogram of observed data channels, generating additional morphological, gradient-based, and Gabor-wavelet features, and optionally applying atlas-based data enhancement. The second phase accomplishes the main classification process using ensembles of binary decision trees and provides an initial, intermediary labeling for each pixel of test records. The last phase reevaluates these intermediary labels using a random forest classifier, then deploys a spatial region growing-based structural validation of suspected tumors, thus achieving a high-quality final segmentation result. The accuracy of the procedure is evaluated using the multi-spectral MRI records of the BraTS 2015 and BraTS 2019 training data sets. The procedure achieves high-quality segmentation results, characterized by average Dice similarity scores of up to 86%.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ensemble learning; binary decision trees; image segmentation; multi-atlas methods; magnetic resonance imaging
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QA Mathematics / matematika > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science / számítástechnika, számítógéptudomány
Depositing User: Dr. László Szilágyi
Date Deposited: 27 Sep 2021 18:23
Last Modified: 27 Sep 2021 18:23
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/130614

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