Automated segmentation and area estimation of neural foramina with boundary regression model

作者:

Highlights:

• Application: it firstly achieved a fully automated and multi-modal segmentation tool for clinical diagnosis of NFS.

• Approach: it creatively formulated segmentation as boundary regression to leverage machine learning in a holistic way.

• Methodology: it proposed a highly nonlinear multi-kernel multi-output SVR to seamlessly combine MSVR and MKL together.

摘要

Highlights•Application: it firstly achieved a fully automated and multi-modal segmentation tool for clinical diagnosis of NFS.•Approach: it creatively formulated segmentation as boundary regression to leverage machine learning in a holistic way.•Methodology: it proposed a highly nonlinear multi-kernel multi-output SVR to seamlessly combine MSVR and MKL together.

论文关键词:Automated segmentation,Area estimation,Neural foramina stenosis,Boundary regression model,Multiple output support vector regression,Multiple kernel learning

论文评审过程:Received 29 December 2015, Revised 5 September 2016, Accepted 21 September 2016, Available online 25 September 2016, Version of Record 27 November 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2016.09.018