Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a degenerative disease of central nervous system. MS patients have some dead tissues in their brains called MS lesions. MRI is an imaging technique sensitive to soft tissues such as brain that shows MS lesions as hyper-intense or hypo-intense signals. Since manual segmentation of these lesions is a laborious and time consuming task, automatic segmentation ...

BACKGROUND The segmentation of brain tissue into cerebrospinal fluid, gray matter, and white matter in magnetic resonance imaging scans is an important procedure to extract regions of interest for quantitative analysis and disease assessment. Manual segmentation requires skilled experts, being a laborious and time-consuming task; therefore, reliable and robust automatic segmentation methods are...

Image segmentation is an essential issue in image description and classification. Currently, in many real applications, segmentation is still mainly manual or strongly supervised by a human expert, which makes it irreproducible and deteriorating. Moreover, there are many uncertainties and vagueness in images, which crisp clustering and even Type-1 fuzzy clustering could not handle. Hence, Type-...

Manual brain tumor segmentation of brain tumors from MRI is a challenging and time consuming task. Brain tumors are very difficult to segment because they have a wide range of appearance and effect on surrounding structures. Brain tumors generallyvary in size, position and image intensities (such T1 intensity, T2 intensity etc.) as seen in MRI. MRI images have overlapping intensities with norma...

Brain tissue segmentation of neonate MR images is a challenging task in study of early brain development, due to low signal contrast among brain tissues and high intensity variability especially in white matter. Among various brain tissue segmentation algorithms, the atlas-based segmentation techniques can potentially produce reasonable segmentation results on neonatal brain images. However, th...

In Magnetic Resonance (MR) brain image analysis, segmentation is commonly used for detecting, measuring and analyzing the main anatomical structures of the brain and eventually identifying pathological regions. Brain image segmentation is of fundamental importance since it helps clinicians and researchers to concentrate on specific regions of the brain in order to analyze them. However, segment...

automatic segmentation of multiple sclerosis (ms) lesions in brain magnetic resonance imaging (mri) has been widely investigated in the recent years with the goal of helping ms diagnosis and patient follow‑up. in this research work, gaussian mixture model (gmm) has been used to segment the ms lesions in mris, including t1‑weighted (t1‑w), t2‑w, and t2‑fluid attenuation inversion recovery. usual...

This paper focuses on the development of an accurate neonatal brain MRI segmentation algorithm and its clinical application to characterize normal brain development and investigate the neuro-anatomical correlates of cognitive impairments. Neonatal brain segmentation is challenging due to the large anatomical variability as a result of the rapid brain development in the neonatal period. The segm...