Automated brain structure segmentation in magnetic resonance images of multiple sclerosis patients

González Villà, Sandra
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This thesis is focused on the automated segmentation of the brain structures in magnetic resonance images, applied to multiple sclerosis patients. This disease is characterized by the presence of lesions, which affect the segmentation result of commonly used automatic methods. We propose a new correspondence search model able to minimize this problem and extend the theory of two remarkable label fusion strategies of the literature, i.e. Non-local Spatial STAPLE and Joint Label Fusion, in order to integrate this model into their corresponding estimation algorithms. Furthermore, with the aim of providing fully automated algorithms, a whole automated pipeline is presented. Finally, a second extension of the theory to enable the integration of manual and automatic edits into the segmentation estimation of both strategies is also proposed. The analysis of the results obtained points out a performance improvement on the lesion areas, which is also reflected on the whole brain segmentation performance ​
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