LSTM-MA: A LSTM Method with Multi-Modality and Adjacency Constraint for Brain Image Segmentation

  • Kai Xie
  • , Ying Wen*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

MR brain tissue segmentation is a significant problem in biomedical image processing. Inhomogeneous intensity and image noise influence the segmentation accuracy. In this paper, we propose a LSTM method with multi-modality and adjacency constraint for brain image segmentation, named LSTM-MA. Two feature sequence generation ways in our method are used, i.e., features with pixel-wise and superpixel-wise adjacency constraint. The LSTM model classifies the generated features into semantic labels to form the segmentation result. The evaluation experiments on BrainWeb and MRBrainS demonstrate that the proposed LSTM-MA with pixel-wise adjacency constraint achieves promising segmentation results, while LSTM-MA with superpixel-wise adjacency constraint shows its computational efficiency as well as robustness to noise.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages240-244
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538662496
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2019
Event26th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2019 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 22 Sep 201925 Sep 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2019-September
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference26th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2019
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period22/09/1925/09/19

Keywords

  • Brain Segmentation
  • LSTM
  • Multi-modality
  • Noise Robustness
  • Superpixel

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