Human Brain Tissue Segmentation in fMRI using Deep Long-Term Recurrent Convolutional Network

Sui Paul Ang, Son Lam Phung, Mark Matthias Schira, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Soan Thi Minh Duong

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Abstract

Accurate segmentation of different brain tissue types is an important step in the study of neuronal activities using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Traditionally, due to the low spatial resolution of fMRI data and the absence of an automated segmentation approach, human experts often resort to superimposing fMRI data on high resolution structural MRI images for analysis. The recent advent of fMRI with higher spatial resolutions offers a new possibility of differentiating brain tissues by their spatio-temporal characteristics, without relying on the structural MRI images. In this paper, we propose a patch-wise deep learning method for segmenting human brain tissues into five types, which are gray matter, white matter, blood vessel, non-brain and cerebrospinal fluid. The proposed method achieves a classification rate of 84.04% and a Dice similarity coefficient of 76.99%, which exceed those by several other methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing
Subtitle of host publicationTechniques and Applications, DICTA 2018
EditorsMark Pickering, Lihong Zheng, Shaodi You, Ashfaqur Rahman, Manzur Murshed, Md Asikuzzaman, Ambarish Natu, Antonio Robles-Kelly, Manoranjan Paul
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538666029
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jan 2019
Event2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2018 - Canberra, Australia
Duration: 10 Dec 201813 Dec 2018

Publication series

Name2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2018

Conference

Conference2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2018
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityCanberra
Period10/12/1813/12/18

Keywords

  • brain tissue segmentation
  • convolutional neural network
  • deep learning
  • functional MRI
  • long short-term memory

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