An automatic algorithm based on wavelet fusion is proposed for segmenting brain glioma with blurred boundaries and complex intratumoral structures on multimodal magnetic resonance (MR) images. Firstly, the T1, T1ce, T2 and Flair MR images of brain glioma are fused with the bias field corrected. Secondly, the image blocks to be classified are extracted, and the 3D-UNet network is trained to classify the pixels in the image blocks. Finally, the trained network model is used for segmentation, and the contour extraction method based on connected regions is used to reduce false positives. The average segmentation accuracy (DSC) of the whole, core and edema parts of the tumors was found to be 90.64%, 80.74% and 86.37%, respectively. The results indicated that the accuracy of the algorithm proposed was similar with or higher than the gold standard method. Compared with the method without multimodal image fusion, the algorithm proposed not only reduced the amount of data and redundant information in the input network, but also improved the accuracy and robustness of segmentation.
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