2016
DOI: 10.1038/srep23470
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Accurate Learning with Few Atlases (ALFA): an algorithm for MRI neonatal brain extraction and comparison with 11 publicly available methods

Abstract: Accurate whole-brain segmentation, or brain extraction, of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a critical first step in most neuroimage analysis pipelines. The majority of brain extraction algorithms have been developed and evaluated for adult data and their validity for neonatal brain extraction, which presents age-specific challenges for this task, has not been established. We developed a novel method for brain extraction of multi-modal neonatal brain MR images, named ALFA (Accurate Learning with Few Atlases… Show more

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“…These methods, such as MASS (Doshi et al, 2013), MAPS (Leung et al, 2011), BEMA (Rex et al, 2004), Pincram (Heckemann et al, 2015), ANTs (Avants et al, 2011), and others (Serag et al, 2016; Shi et al, 2012), involve deformable registrations of multiple atlases to a target image. The atlases contain accurate, often manually or semi-automatically drawn brain masks.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These methods, such as MASS (Doshi et al, 2013), MAPS (Leung et al, 2011), BEMA (Rex et al, 2004), Pincram (Heckemann et al, 2015), ANTs (Avants et al, 2011), and others (Serag et al, 2016; Shi et al, 2012), involve deformable registrations of multiple atlases to a target image. The atlases contain accurate, often manually or semi-automatically drawn brain masks.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For brain extraction, we used the brain masks which are provided with each dataset; except dataset I which was brain extracted using ALFA (Serag et al, 2016). All images from all datasets were corrected for intensity inhomogeneity using the N4 method (Tustison et al, 2010).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, we use in this work a sparsity-based technique to select a number of representative atlas images that capture population variability by determining a subset of n -dimensional samples that are “uniformly” distributed in the low-dimensional data space (Serag et al, 2016). The technique works by first linearly registering (12 degrees of freedom) all images from each dataset to an appropriate common coordinate space, and image intensities are normalized using the method described by (Nyul and Udupa, 2000).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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