Despite the importance of the liver segmentation in the medical images for efficient noninvasive diagnosis, few studies found in the literatures for fully automated methods for liver segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) compared to that in Computed Tomography (CT) scans. Motivated by this, we propose an adaptive fully automatic liver segmentation method for MRI images based on thresholding and Bayesian classification. Bayesian classifications have proved to be highly robust to various image degradations. It only requires a small amount of training data to estimate the parameters necessary for classification, which is a huge advantage in medical applications. Furthermore, the Bayesian model is robust when large uncertainties are involved in medical image analysis problems. The proposed method is successfully tested on many MRI cases acquired from different patients, in various sizes. Experiments proved the robustness of the proposed liver automatic segmentation process even on data from different scanner types. The segmentation accuracy of the model has a mean Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 95.5% for MRI datasets.
Automatic segmentation of the liver and hepatic lesions is an important step towards deriving quantitative biomarkers for accurate clinical diagnosis and computer-aided decision support systems. This paper presents a system for the automatic segmentation of the liver from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI). The system works without the need for setting manual seed points or setting a region of interest. Instead, the proposed system automatically detects and segments the liver through relying on its anatomical features for detection and using active contour for segmentation. The proposed segmentation system begins with localizing the liver or a part of it from a given MRI image using biggest components analysis. The extracted liver part is later used as a mask for full liver segmentation using active contour. The proposed system is fully automatic, works on different cases of MRI images (different sizes, healthy and abnormal liver). The detection and segmentation of the liver succeeded in 95% of the test cases acquired from different MRI imaging modalities.
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