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This paper presents a statistical approach to aggregating speed and phase (directional) information for vascular segmentation of phase contrast magnetic resonance angiograms (PC-MRA). Rather than relying on speed information alone, as done by others and in our own work, we demonstrate that including phase information as a priori knowledge in a Markov random field (MRF) model can improve the quality of segmentation. This is particularly true in the region within an aneurysm where there is a heterogeneous intensity pattern and significant vascular signal loss. We propose to use a Maxwell-Gaussian mixture density to model the background signal distribution and combine this with a uniform distribution for modelling vascular signal to give a Maxwell-Gaussian-uniform (MGU) mixture model of image intensity. The MGU model parameters are estimated by the modified expectation-maximisation (EM) algorithm. In addition, it is shown that the Maxwell-Gaussian mixture distribution (a) models the background signal more accurately than a Maxwell distribution, (b) exhibits a better fit to clinical data and (c) gives fewer false positive voxels (misclassified vessel voxels) in segmentation. The new se

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Author

Albert C.S. Chung; J.Alison Noble; Paul Summers

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1361-8415)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Physical Sciences)