
Brain tumor segmentation is the first and the most critical step in clinical applications of radiomics. However, segmenting brain images by radiologists is labor intense and prone to inter- and intraobserver variability. Stable and reproducible brain image segmentation algorithms are thus important for successful tumor detection in radiomics. In this paper, we propose a supervised brain image segmentation method, especially for magnetic resonance (MR) brain images with glioma. This paper uses hard edge multiplicative intrinsic component optimization to preprocess glioma medical image on the server side, and then, the doctors could supervise the segmentation process on mobile devices in their convenient time. Since the preprocessed images have the same brightness for the same tissue voxels, they have small data size (typically 1/10 of the original image size) and simple structure of 4 types of intensity value. This observation thus allows follow-up steps to be processed on mobile devices with low bandwidth and limited computing performance. Experiments conducted on 1935 brain slices from 129 patients show that more than 30% of the sample can reach 90% similarity; over 60% of the samples can reach 85% similarity, and more than 80% of the sample could reach 75% similarity. The comparisons with other segmentation methods also demonstrate both efficiency and stability of the proposed approach.
Observer Variation, Radiotherapy, Brain Neoplasms, Normal Distribution, Brain, Reproducibility of Results, Neuroimaging, Glioma, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Cluster Analysis, Humans, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Algorithms, Cell Phone, Research Article
Observer Variation, Radiotherapy, Brain Neoplasms, Normal Distribution, Brain, Reproducibility of Results, Neuroimaging, Glioma, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Cluster Analysis, Humans, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Algorithms, Cell Phone, Research Article
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