Characterization of the human cortex in MR images through the image foresting transform

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 357-360

  Castellano, Gabriela ^a   Lotufo, Roberto A ^a   Falcão, Alexandre X ^a   Cendes, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMAGE FORESTING TRANSFORM;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0344666658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (25)

1. JP Hornak, The basics of MRI, http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/, 1996.
2. PB Crino and K. Chou, "Epilepsy and cortical dysplasias," Current treatment options in Neurology, vol. 2, pp. 543-551, 2000.
3. S Wolff, Computer Aided Analysts of MR Brain Images, MSc thesis, Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, 2001.
4. SM Sisodiya, SL Free, JM Stevens, DR Fish, and SD Shorvon, "Widespread cerebral structural changes in patients with cortical dysgenesis and epilepsy," Brain, vol. 118, pp. 1039-1050, 1995.
5. FG Woermann, SL Free, MJ Koepp, J Ashburner, and JS Duncan, "Voxel-by-voxel comparison of automatically segmented cerebral gray matter - A rater-independent comparison of structural MRI in patients with epilepsy," NeuroImage, vol. 10, pp. 373-384, 1999.
6. J Ashburner and KJ Friston, "Multimodal image coregistration and partitioning - A unified framework," NeuroImage, vol. 6, pp. 209-217, 1997.
7. AM Dale, B Fischl, and MI Sereno, "Cortical surface-based analysis - Part I - Segmentation and surface reconstruction," NeuroImage, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 179-194, 1999.
8. C Xu, DL Pham, ME Rettmann, DN Yu, and JL Prince, "Reconstruction of the human cerebral cortex from magnetic resonance images," IEEE Trans Medical Imaging, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 467-480, 1999.
9. X Zeng, LH Staib, RT Schultz, and JS Duncan, "Segmentation and measurement of the cortex from 3D MR images using coupled surfaces propagation," IEEE Trans Medical Imaging, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 100-111, 1999.
10. D MacDonald, N Kabani, D Avis, and AC Evans, "Automated 3D extraction of inner and outer surfaces of cerebral cortex from MRI," NeuroImage, vol. 12, pp. 340-356, 2000.
11. B Fischl, MI Sereno, and AM Dale, "Cortical surface-based analysis - Part II - Inflation, flattening, and a surface-based coordinate system," NeuroImage, vol. 9. no. 2, pp. 195-207, 1999.
12. G Lohmann and DY von Cramon, "Automatic labelling of the human cortical surface using sulcal basins." Medical Image Analysis, vol. 4, pp. 179-188, 2000.
13. AX Falcão, J Stolfi, and RA Lotufo, "The image foresting transform: Theory, algorithms and applications," Tech. Rep. IC-02-012, IC - UNICAMP, Sep 2002.
14. AX Falcão, BS Cunha, and RA Lotufo, "Design of connected operators using the image foresting transform," in Proceedings of SPIE on Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, Feb 2001, pp.468-479.
15. AX Falcão and BS Cunha, "Multiscale shape representation by image foresting transform," in Proceedings of SPIE on Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, Feb 2001, pp. 1091-1100.
16. AX Falcão, LF Costa, and BS Cunha, "Multiscale skeletons by image foresting transform and its application to neuromorphometry." Pattern Recognition, vol. 35, pp. 1571-1582, 2002.
17. RA Lotufo and AX Falcão, "The ordered queue and the optimality of the watershed approaches," in 5th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, Kluwer Academic, Palo Alto, CA, Jun 2000, pp. 341-350.
18. RA Lotufo, AX Falcão, and F Zampirolli, "Fast euclidean distance transform using a graph-search algorithm," in Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Gramado, RS, Brazil, Oct 2000, pp. 269-275.
19. AX Falcão, JK Udupa, and FK Miyazawa, "An ultra-fast user-steered image segmentation paradigm: live-wire-on-the-fly," IEEE Trans Medical Imaging, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 55-62, 2000.
20. AX Falcão, J Stolfi, and RA Lotufo, "The image foresting transform: Theory, algorithms and applications," Tech. Rep. IC-03-04, IC - UNICAMP, Apr 2003.
21. JBTM Roerdink and A Meijster, "The watershed transform: definitions, algorithms, and parallelization strategies," Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 41, pp. 187-228, 2000.
22. S Beucher and F Meyer, "The morphological approach to segmentation: the watershed transformation," in Mathematical Morphology in Image Processing, ER Douguerty, Ed., chapter 12, pp. 433-481. Marcel Dekker, New York, 1993.
23. L Vincent, "Morphological grayscale reconstruction in image analysis," IEEE Trans Image Processing, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 176-201, 1993.
24. C Lantuejoul and S Beucher, "On the use of the geodesic metric in image analysis," Journal of Microscopy, vol. 121, pp. 39-49, 1981.
25. AX Falcão and FPG Bergo, "The iterative image foresting transform and its application to user-steered 3D segmentation," in Proceedings of SPIE on Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, to appear, Feb 2003.