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An improvement of the Active Shape procedure introduced by Cootes and Taylor is presented. The new automated brain segmentation and interpretation approach incorporates a priori knowledge about neuroanatomic structures and their specific structural relationships to provide robust segmentation and labeling.
The method was trained in 8 MR brain images and tested in 19 brain images by comparison to observer-defined independent standards. Neuroanatomic structures in all images from the test set were successfully identified. The presented method is applicable to virtually any task involving deformable shape analysis.
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Duta, N., Sonka, M. (1997). Segmentation and interpretation of MR brain images using an improved knowledge-based active shape model. In: Duncan, J., Gindi, G. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63046-5_29
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