Segmenting brain tumors using pseudo–conditional random fields

CH Lee, S Wang, A Murtha, MRG Brown… - … Image Computing and …, 2008 - Springer
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 …

Segmenting brain tumors with conditional random fields and support vector machines

CH Lee, M Schmidt, A Murtha, A Bistritz… - … Workshop on Computer …, 2005 - Springer
Abstract Markov Random Fields (MRFs) are a popular and well-motivated model for many
medical image processing tasks such as segmentation. Discriminative Random Fields …

Parameter learning for CRF-based tissue segmentation of brain tumors

R Meier, V Karamitsou, S Habegger, R Wiest… - … Sclerosis, Stroke and …, 2016 - Springer
In this work, we investigated the potential of a recently proposed parameter learning
algorithm for Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). Parameters of a pairwise CRF are …

Fully automatic segmentation of brain tumor images using support vector machine classification in combination with hierarchical conditional random field …

S Bauer, LP Nolte, M Reyes - … , Toronto, Canada, September 18-22, 2011 …, 2011 - Springer
Delineating brain tumor boundaries from magnetic resonance images is an essential task for
the analysis of brain cancer. We propose a fully automatic method for brain tissue …

Markov random field segmentation of brain MR images

K Held, ER Kops, BJ Krause, WM Wells… - IEEE transactions on …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Describes a fully-automatic three-dimensional (3-D)-segmentation technique for brain
magnetic resonance (MR) images. By means of Markov random fields (MRF's) the …

Automated brain tumor segmentation using spatial accuracy-weighted hidden Markov Random Field

J Nie, Z Xue, T Liu, GS Young, K Setayesh… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2009 - Elsevier
A variety of algorithms have been proposed for brain tumor segmentation from multi-channel
sequences, however, most of them require isotropic or pseudo-isotropic resolution of the MR …

On the convergence of EM-like algorithms for image segmentation using Markov random fields

A Roche, D Ribes, M Bach-Cuadra, G Krüger - Medical image analysis, 2011 - Elsevier
Inference of Markov random field images segmentation models is usually performed using
iterative methods which adapt the well-known expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm for …

MRI segmentation fusion for brain tumor detection

I Cabria, I Gondra - Information Fusion, 2017 - Elsevier
The process of manually generating precise segmentations of brain tumors from magnetic
resonance images (MRI) is time-consuming and error-prone. We present a new algorithm …

Brain tumor detection and segmentation in a CRF (conditional random fields) framework with pixel-pairwise affinity and superpixel-level features

W Wu, AYC Chen, L Zhao, JJ Corso - International journal of computer …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose Detection and segmentation of a brain tumor such as glioblastoma multiforme
(GBM) in magnetic resonance (MR) images are often challenging due to its intrinsically …

[PDF][PDF] Fully automatic brain tumor segmentation from multiple MR sequences using hidden Markov fields and variational EM

S Doyle, F Vasseur, M Dojat, F Forbes - Procs. NCI-MICCAI BraTS, 2013 - researchgate.net
A fully automatic algorithm is proposed to segment glioma MR sequences, by availing of the
complimentary information provided by multiple Magnetic Resonance (MR) sequences, and …