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In this paper, we evaluate different schemes for constructing a mean shape anatomical atlas for atlas-based segmentation of MR brain images. Each atlas is constructed and validated using a database of 20 images for which detailed manual delineations of 49 different subcortical structures are available. Atlas construction and atlas based segmentation are performed by non-rigid intensity-based registration using a viscous fluid deformation model with parameters that were optimally tuned for this particular task. The segmentation performance of each atlas scheme is evaluated on the same database using a leave-one-out approach and measured by the volume overlap of corresponding regions in the ground-truth manual segmentation and the warped atlas label image.
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Wang, Q. et al. (2005). Construction and Validation of Mean Shape Atlas Templates for Atlas-Based Brain Image Segmentation. In: Christensen, G.E., Sonka, M. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3565. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11505730_57
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