Breast tumor segmentation method based on MRI images

Abstract

The invention discloses a breast tumor partition method. The breast tumor partition method includes the steps of building a coupled framework of classifications and biased field correcting of breast tissue nuclear magnetic resonance images, enhancing the breast areas and the peripheral areas, and partitioning the breast tumor images in cooperation with the shape prior. By means of the breast tumor partition method, biased field information is fused into classification models, the biased field information and the classification models are combined to be the unified framework, and the classifications and a corrected biased field of the breast tumor nuclear magnetic resonance images are solved with the fast energy minimization method at the same time, and use information of each other in the model evolution process for finally achieving accurate solving of the classifications and the corrected biased field; the shapes of blood vessels and tumors are analyzed, differences of the blood vessels and the tumors in shape are caught, the shape prior is built through parameters such as the characteristic values and the characteristic vectors, and the level set driving force based on the shapes is built and combined with a level set method based on local information, so that a level set overcomes the interference of a tubular structure during evolution and only captures the breast tumor area.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of image segmentation, and in particular relates to a method for extracting and segmenting breast tumor tissue based on nuclear magnetic resonance images. Background technique [0002] Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women, and more than 10,000 women die of the disease every year worldwide. In 2010, there were nearly 207,090 new breast cancer patients in the United States, and by 2011, the statistical data had increased to 230,480 cases, accounting for 30% of new female malignant tumors, ranking first in the incidence of female malignant tumors . In my country, the statistics of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and other big cities show that breast cancer is also the most common malignant tumor among women in my country, and the incidence rate is increasing year by year. The symptoms of breast cancer are varied, and the common ones are: breast lump, breast pain, nipple discharge, erosion or s...

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Problems solved by technology

The segmentation of breast tumors mainly has the following three difficulties: 1) The breast MRI image is seriously affected by the offset field, and the gray level distribution of the image is very uneven; The breast part, and the two parts do not have a very obvious boundary; 3) The gray scale of the breast tumor in the breast area is very close to the gray scale of the blood vessel, and it is difficult to distinguish the two areas from the gray scale

[0011] In summary, due to the uneven gray scale of breast MRI images, the non-breast region has a greater impact on the automatic segmentation of breast tumors, and the gray scale of breast tumors is very close to the gray scale of blood vessels, which leads to automatic segmentation from MRI images. Breast tumors appear very difficult

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