3D segmentation and labeling using self-organizing Kohonen network for volumetric measurements on brain CT imaging to quantify TBI recovery
In this paper, we present a new system to segment and label CT brain slices using a self-organizing Kohonen network. Our aim is to extract reliable and robust measures from CT images of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients that can accurately describe the morphological changes in the brain as recovery progresses. Segmentation is performed by assigning a feature pattern to each voxel, consisting of a scaled family of differential geometrical invariant features. The invariant feature pattern is input to Kohonen network for an unsupervised classification of the voxels into regions.