14.08.2013 Views

Docteur de l'université Automatic Segmentation and Shape Analysis ...

Docteur de l'université Automatic Segmentation and Shape Analysis ...

Docteur de l'université Automatic Segmentation and Shape Analysis ...

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

Chapter 3 Hippocampal segmentation using multiple atlases 63<br />

images was built on a population of el<strong>de</strong>rly subjects. The <strong>de</strong>mographics of the<br />

selected atlases are shown in Table 3.1, all of which are NC subjects.<br />

3.4.1.2 Results<br />

Table 3.1: Demographics of selected atlases<br />

IBSR Iter. 1 Iter. 2<br />

No. of atlases 18 16 24<br />

Male/Female 14/4 6/10 10/14<br />

mean: 74.54 mean: 75.73<br />

Age min: Juv. min: 63.68 min: 62.35<br />

max: 71 max: 86.10 max: 88.26<br />

MMSE N/A 27.81 28.88<br />

The labels in the 18 IBSR atlases <strong>and</strong> 40 population specific atlases were propa-<br />

gated to the 210 AIBL images. The atlases were selected based on NMI similarity.<br />

For each query, 9 atlases were selected from IBSR atlases <strong>and</strong> atlases of el<strong>de</strong>rly<br />

subjects respectively. The labels from the selected atlases were fused by major-<br />

ity voting. Two examples of probability image of hippocampus produced from<br />

IBSR atlases <strong>and</strong> atlases selected from el<strong>de</strong>rly population are shown in Figure 3.4.<br />

The probability images fused by IBSR atlases <strong>and</strong> atlases of el<strong>de</strong>rly population are<br />

evaluated quantitatively in terms of their entropy HP <strong>and</strong> the second or<strong>de</strong>r partial<br />

moment µ2 of their histograms. For the IBSR <strong>and</strong> the population specific atlases,<br />

the results fusing 9 atlases selected according to image similarity are presented in<br />

Tables 3.2 <strong>and</strong> 3.3.<br />

3.4.1.3 Discussion<br />

The results show that, the agreement among the el<strong>de</strong>rly population specific atlases<br />

is in general higher than that from IBSR, when being propagated to query images<br />

in the dataset of el<strong>de</strong>rly subjects. For both NC <strong>and</strong> AD cases, the entropy is<br />

higher when probability images are fused with atlases of the IBSR than that of<br />

atlases selected from el<strong>de</strong>rly population, indicating a higher r<strong>and</strong>omness in the<br />

probability images produced using IBSR atlases. In terms of the second or<strong>de</strong>r

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!