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Multiresolution simulated annealing for brain image analysis

Analysis of biomedical images is an important step in quantification of various diseases such as human spontaneous intracerebral brain hemorrhage (ICH). In particular, the study of outcome in patients having ICH requires measurements of various ICH parameters such as hemorrhage volume and their change over time. A multiresolution probabilistic approach for segmentation of CT head images is presented in this work. This method views the segmentation problem as a pixel labeling problem. In this application the labels are: background, skull, brain tissue, and ICH. The proposed method is based on the Maximum A-Posteriori (MAP) estimation of the unknown pixel labels. The MAP method maximizes the a-posterior probability of segmented image given the observed (input) image. Markov random field (MRF) model has been used for the posterior distribution. The MAP estimation of the segmented image has been determined using the simulated annealing (SA) algorithm. The SA algorithm is used to minimize the energy function associated with MRF posterior distribution function. A multiresolution SA (MSA) has been developed to speed up the annealing process. MSA is presented in detail in this work.A knowledge-based classification based on the brightness, size, shape and relative position toward other regions is performed at the end of the procedure. The regions are identified as background, skull, brain, ICH and calcifications.

simulated annealing; Markov Random Field; CT; multiresolution; ICH

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