title: A learning based algorithm for automatic extraction of the cortical sulci.
abstract: This paper presents a learning based method for automatic extraction of the major cortical sulci from MRI volumes or extracted surfaces. Instead of using a few pre-defined rules such as the mean curvature properties, to detect the major sulci, the algorithm learns a discriminative model by selecting and combining features from a large pool of candidates. We used the Probabilistic Boosting Tree algorithm to learn the model, which implicitly discovers and combines rules based on manually annotated sulci traced by neuroanatomists. The algorithm almost has no parameters to tune and is fast because of the adoption of integral volume and 3D Haar filters. For a given approximately registered MRI volume, the algorithm computes the probability of how likely it is that each voxel lies on a major sulcus curve. Dynamic programming is then applied to extract the curve based on the probability map and a shape prior. Because the algorithm can be applied to MRI volumes directly, there is no need to perform preprocessing such as tissue segmentation or mapping to a canonical space. The learning aspect makes the approach flexible and it also works on extracted cortical surfaces.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. sfzheng@stat.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Songfeng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Zhuowen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Alan L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Yuille
authors.forename: Allan L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Reiss
authors.forename: Rebecca A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Dutton
authors.forename: Agatha D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Albert M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Galaburda
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Ivo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dinov
authors.forename: Arthur W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Toga
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity