Multi-atlas segmentation of the skeleton from whole-body MRI-Impact of iterative background masking.
Jakub CerankaSabrina VergaMaryna KvasnytsiaFrédéric LecouvetNicolas MichouxJohan de MeyHubert RaeymaekersThierry MetensJulie AbsilJef VandemeulebrouckePublished in: Magnetic resonance in medicine (2019)
A registration strategy, relying on the use of atlas segmentations as mask during image registration was proposed and evaluated for multi-atlas segmentation of whole-body MRI. The approach significantly improved registration and final segmentation accuracy and may be applicable to other structures of interest.