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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Learning Global and Cluster-Specific Classifiers for Robust Brain Extraction in MR Data
Authors : Yuan Liu, Hasan E. Çetingül, Benjamin L. Odry, Mariappan S. Nadar
Published in: Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
We present a learning-based framework for automatic brain extraction in MR images. It accepts single or multi-contrast brain MR data, builds global binary random forests classifiers at multiple resolution levels, hierarchically performs voxelwise classifications for a test subject, and refines the brain surface using a narrow-band level set technique on the classification map. We further develop a data-driven schema to improve the model performance, which clusters patches of co-registered training images and learns cluster-specific classifiers. We validate our framework via experiments on single and multi-contrast datasets acquired using scanners with different magnetic field strengths. Compared to the state-of-the-art methods, it yields the best performance with statistically significant improvement of the cluster-specific method (with a Dice coefficient of 97.6 ± 0.4 % and an average surface distance of 0.8 ± 0.1 mm) over the global method.