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- Patent Title: Method for automatic segmentation of brain tumors merging full convolution neural networks with conditional random fields
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Application No.: US16070882Application Date: 2016-11-07
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Publication No.: US10679352B2Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: Yihong Wu , Xiaomei Zhao
- Applicant: Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Applicant Address: CN Beijing
- Assignee: Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Current Assignee: Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Current Assignee Address: CN Beijing
- Agency: Maier & Maier, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/CN2016/104849 WO 20161107
- International Announcement: WO2018/082084 WO 20180511
- Main IPC: G06T7/11
- IPC: G06T7/11 ; G06T5/40 ; G06T11/00 ; G06T7/136 ; G06T5/00 ; G06T7/143

Abstract:
A method for automatic segmentation of brain tumors merging full convolution neural networks with conditional random fields. The present application intends to address the issue that presently the technology of deep learning is unable to ensure the continuity of the segmentation result in shape and in space when segmenting brain tumors. For this purpose, the present application includes the following steps: step 1, processing a magnetic resonance image comprising brain tumors by utilizing a method for non-uniformity bias correction and brightness regularization, to generate a second magnetic resonance image; step 2, performing brain tumor segmentation for said second magnetic resonance image by utilizing a neural network merging a full convolutional neural network with a conditional random field, and outputting a result of brain tumor segmentation. The present method may execute brain tumor segmentation end-to-end and slice by slice during testing, which has relatively high computation efficiency.
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