An improved region growing method for scalp and skull extraction based on mathematical morphology operations

In this paper, we present a novel region growing method combined with mathematical morphology for scalp and skull extraction in T1-weighted brain MR images. First, a grayscale dilation operation is used in 2D brain MR image. Second, the scalp and skull portions are extracted by using a region growin...

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Main Authors: Ruoyu Du, Hyo Jong Lee
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain modeling
closing operation
Gray-scale
grayscale dilation
Image segmentation
intensity threshold
Morphology
region growing
Scalp
scalp and skull extraction
Three dimensional displays
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Summary:In this paper, we present a novel region growing method combined with mathematical morphology for scalp and skull extraction in T1-weighted brain MR images. First, a grayscale dilation operation is used in 2D brain MR image. Second, the scalp and skull portions are extracted by using a region growing method with intensity threshold. Third, the scalp and skull mask is optimized by using a closing operation. Finally, the mask model is reconstructed in three-dimensional space. The results of the proposed method and the region growing with intensity threshold on MRI data acquired from five persons were compared with manual segmentation. The mean similarity index for the scalp and skull extracted regions was equal to 96.2% in the proposed method. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method can extracted the scalp and skull accurately and effectively.
DOI:10.1109/CISP.2011.6100498