Research Article

Automatic Skull Stripping and Brain Segmentation with U-Net in MRI Database

Number: 40 September 30, 2022
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Automatic Skull Stripping and Brain Segmentation with U-Net in MRI Database

Abstract

Skull stripping has an important in neuroimaging workflow. Skull stripping is a time-consuming process in the Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For this reason, skull stripping and brain segmentation are aimed in this study. For the this purpose, the U-NET architecture design, which is one of the frequently used models in the field of medical image segmentation, was used. Also, different loss functions such as Cross Entropy (CE), Dice, IoU, Tversky, Focal Tversky and their compound forms were tested on U-Net architecture design. The compound loss function of CE and Dice loss functions achieved the best performace with the average dice score of 0.976, average IoU score of 0.964, sensitivity of 0.972, specificity of 0.985, precision of 0.960 and accuracy of 0.981. As a result, skull stripping was performed to facilitate the detection of brain diseases.

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Thanks

This paper has been prepared by AKGUN Computer Incorporated Company. We would like to thank AKGUN Computer Inc. for providing all kinds of opportunities and funds for the execution of this project.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Engineering

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

September 30, 2022

Submission Date

September 9, 2022

Acceptance Date

September 23, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Number: 40

APA
Derin, A., Bayram, A. F., Gurkan, C., Budak, A., & Karataş, H. (2022). Automatic Skull Stripping and Brain Segmentation with U-Net in MRI Database. Avrupa Bilim Ve Teknoloji Dergisi, 40, 75-81. https://doi.org/10.31590/ejosat.1173065

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