Automated region growing for segmentation of brain lesion in diffusion-weighted MRI

• Main Authors: Mohd. Saad, Norhashimah, Syed Abu Bakar, Syed Abd. Rahman, Muda, Sobri, Mohd. Mokji, Musa, Abdullah, Abdul Rahim
• Format: Article
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: QA Mathematics
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/46631/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

This paper presents an automatic segmentation of brain lesions from diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI or DWI) using region growing approach. The lesions are acute infarction, haemorrhage, tumour and abscess. Region splitting and merging is used to detect the lesion region. Then,...