Segmentation scripts

This section describes Anima scripts for segmentation. For now, we have atlas-based intracranial extraction and multi-atlas segmentation.

Atlas-based intracranial mask extraction

This requires an additional atlas image for which the intracranial mask is known. These data are provided in the Anima scripts data.

The script simply takes as an input the image or images to be brain-extracted and performs a series of registrations to bring the atlas on the image. Finally the brain mask is applied to the image. For each brain-extracted image, two images are produced: image_brainMask.nrrd and image_masked.nrrd. The first one is the binary mask of the brain, and the second one the image with only the brain kept. T1 images are the ones that should work best as the atlas proposed is in the T1 modality but since the registration algorithm uses an adapted similarity measure, other MRI modalities should be fine as well as long as their field of view is similar to the one of the atlas.

Example:

~/Anima-Scripts-Public/brain_extraction/animaAtlasBasedBrainExtraction.py -i T1Image.nrrd

Multi-atlas segmentation

As for the atlasing scripts, this script requires to be run on a cluster with an OAR scheduler. It provides a basic multi-atlas segmentation, i.e. does the following:

  • registers a set of images with known segmentations (atlases) onto an image to be delineated
  • applies transformations to known segmentations
  • fuses the transformed segmentations using majority voting (animaMajorityLabelVoting in segmentation tools)

Several options are available:

  • -i: anatomical image to be delineated
  • -a: list of atlas anatomical images i.e. a text file with a file name on each line
  • -s: list of corresponding atlas segmentations i.e. a text file with a segmentation name on each line
  • -o: output label image for the input anatomical image
  • -c: optional number of cores for each job on the cluster

Example:

~/Anima-Scripts-Public/multi_atlas_segmentation/animaMultiAtlasSegmentation.py -i T13D.nrrd -a listAtlasImages.txt -s listAtlasSegmentations.txt -o T13D_segmented.nrrd