2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2177-2183
Author(s):  
Lei Hua ◽  
Jing Xue ◽  
Kaijian Xia ◽  
Leyuan Zhou ◽  
Pengjiang Qian ◽  
...  

In clinical assisted diagnosis, it is an important way to obtain information with the help of medical images. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of brain tissue has become a research hotspot for brain diseases. Therefore, image segmentation technology is an indispensable link in medical image analysis. Due to the defects such as ambiguity, complexity, gray-scale unevenness, partial volume effect in magnetic resonance brain images, it is essential to improve the segmentation performance of classical algorithms in medical images. In this paper, multitasking and weighted fuzzy clustering algorithm are combined as a new algorithm (MT-WFCM) for MRI brain image segmentation. The proposed MT-WFCM algorithm improve the clustering performance of all tasks through common information between different magnetic resonance brain images with correlation. Besides, the difference between MT-WFCM and MT-FCM is that task weights are added to avoid negative effects between tasks in the segmentation process. According to five different comparative experiments, the MT-WFCM algorithm can mine the cooperative relationship among each task and the characteristics of each task effectively. In magnetic resonance image (MRI) segmentation, multi-task weighted fuzzy c-means clustering method can make up for the shortcomings of single-task clustering algorithm, strengthen the relationship between tasks, and get more accurate segmentation results.


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