A study: Segmentation of lateral ventricles in brain MRI using fuzzy C-means clustering with gaussian smoothing

Abstract

This paper demonstrates a study on lateral ventricles segmentation in brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The method applies Gaussian smoothed image data as additional features into the feature space of Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm. With the aid of the smoothing effect from Gaussian filters, FCM is able to segment lateral ventricular compartments by reducing inappropriate clustering caused by noise and inhomogeneous intensity distribution. The results demonstrate both noise insensitivity and more homogeneous clustering. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.