MRI Based Acoustic Neuroma Image Segmentation System

• Main Authors: Mei-Lin Lin, 林玫霖
• Other Authors: 蔡孟勳
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82435459192491022005

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 資訊管理學系所 === 99 === This research proposes a MRI based acoustic neuroma image segmentation system. Acoustic neuroma, also known as vestibular schwannoma, is one kind of intracranial tumor. Most commonly, acoustic neuroma arises in a wedge shaped area bounded by the petrous bone, the pons and the cerebellum. Acoustic neuroma results from abnormal hyperplasia of Schwann cells of the inferior vestibular nerve. Generally, acoustic neuroma is often a benign tumor; however, it still has potential probability to become a malignant tumor that usually grows faster and tends to spread to other organs which may seriously harm human bodies or even cause death. Acoustic neuroma MR images which are scanned by the doctor are used in this research to detect the location of tumors. The involvement of the user is needed in this research. A seed point is assigned by the user, and edge based segmentation methods such as gradient calculation, edge enhancement, and noise reduction are used to illustrate edge of the acoustic neuroma in MRI. Besides, a region growing method is used to get the intensity feature of the acoustic neuroma. The combination of edge based segmentation methods and the region growing method provides a good result in acoustic neuroma segmentation. The goal of this research is to solve great amount of waste in medical resource and time consuming in traditional acoustic neuroma detection. ACM and LSM are used to investigate the performance of the proposed method. In order to quantitate segmentation results, four commonly used segmentation error measures (ME, RAE, MHD, and RDE) are used in this research. The results show that the proposed method is better than other two methods with regards to segmentation accuracy.