Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
9-7-2008
Abstract
Locating Brain tumor segmentation within MR (magnetic resonance) images is integral to the treatment of brain cancer. This segmentation task requires classifying each voxel as either tumor or non-tumor, based on a description of that voxel. Unfortunately, standard classifiers, such as Logistic Regression (LR) and Support Vector Machines (SVM), typically have limited accuracy as they treat voxels as independent and identically distributed (iid). Approaches based on random fields, which are able to incorporate spatial constraints, have recently been applied to brain tumor segmentation with notable performance improvement over iid classifiers. However, previous random field systems involved computationally intractable formulations, which are typically solved using some approximation. Here, we present pseudo-conditional random fields (PCRFs), which achieve accuracy similar to other random fields variants, but are significantly more efficient. We formulate a PCRF as a regularized discriminative classifier that relaxes the classification decision for each voxel by considering the labels and features of neighboring voxels.
Repository Citation
Lee, C.,
Wang, S.,
Murtha, A.,
Brown, M. R.,
& Greiner, R.
(2008). Segmenting Brain Tumors using Pseudo-Conditional Random Fields. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5241, 359-366.
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Comments
This paper was presented at the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention on September 7, 2008 in New York, NY.
This paper is the authors' post-print version. The final publication is available at link.springer.com. The direct link to this article is http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-85988-8_43.