Wang Shunfeng, Ji Xiaona, Zhang Jianwei, Chen Yunjie, Fang Lin, Zhan Tianming. Improved coupled model for MR images segmentation and bias restoration[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2012, 17(9): 1175-1180. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20120918.
Improved coupled model for MR images segmentation and bias restoration
Medical image analysis is helpful for doctors to diagnose diseases. However
the images usually have noise and intensity inhomogeneities
which makes it hard to obtain satisfactory results using the traditional image segmentation methods. To solve these problems
we propose a coupled model based on local image information
which can segment images while restoring the bias field. In order to obtain global optimal results accurately and quickly
we improved the coupled model to be a convex function and solved it based on the Split-Bregman method. The experimental results show that our method can reduce the effect of the noise and intensity inhomogeneities
and obtain more accurate segmentation results while estimating the bias field efficiently.