Image segmentation is a process to identify regions of interest from digital images. Image segmentation plays an important role in medical image processing which enables a variety of clinical applications. It is also a tool to facilitate the detection of abnormalities such as cancerous lesions in the brain. Although numerous efforts in recent years have advanced this technique, no single approach solves the problem of segmentation for the large variety of image modalities existing today. Consequently, brain MRI segmentation remains a challenging task. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate brain MRI segmentation for delineation of tumors, ventricles and other anatomical structures using Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) routines as the foundation. ITK is an open-source software system to support the Visible Human Project. Visible Human Project is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Currently under active development, ITK employs leading-edge segmentation and registration algorithms in two, three, and more dimensions. A goal of this thesis is to implement those algorithms to facilitate brain segmentation for a brain cancer research scientist.

Creator

• Kinkar, Shilpa N

Contributors

• Sullivan, John M.

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Computer Science

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• etd-050505-103641

Keyword

• Canny Edge
• Fast Marching
• Segmentation
• ITK
• CMake
• Geodesic
• Level Set
• Laplacian
• Watershed

Advisor

• Sullivan, John M.

Defense date

• 2005-05-03

Year

• 2005

Date created

• 2005-05-05

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-11-10