Browsing by Author "Cormier, Stéphane"

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A generic Multi-Agent framework for Medical-Image segmentation
(2017) Bennai, Mohamed Tahar; Guessoum, Zahia; Mazouzi, Smaine; Cormier, Stéphane; Mezghiche, Mohamed
Multi-agent medical image segmentation : a survey
(Elsevier, 2023) Bennai, Mohamed Tahar; Guessoum, Zahia; Mazouzi, Smaine; Cormier, Stéphane; Mezghiche, Mohamed
During the last decades, the healthcare area has increasingly relied on medical imaging for the diagnosis of a growing number of pathologies. The different types of medical images are mostly manually processed by human radiologists for diseases detection and monitoring. However, such a procedure is time-consuming and relies on expert judgment. The latter can be influenced by a variety of factors. One of the most complicated image processing tasks is image segmentation. Medical image segmentation consists of dividing the input image into a set of regions of interest, corresponding to body tissues and organs. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques brought researchers attention with their promising results for the image segmentation automation. Among AI-based techniques are those that use the Multi-Agent System (MAS) paradigm. This paper presents a comparative study of the multi-agent approaches dedicated to the segmentation of medical images, recently published in the literature
A stochastic multi-agent approach for medical-image segmentation: Application to tumor segmentation in brain MR images
(ELSEVIER, 2020) Bennai, Mohamed Tahar; Guessoum, Zahia; Mazouzi, Smaine; Cormier, Stéphane; Mezghiche, Mohamed
According to functional or anatomical modalities, medical imaging provides a visual representation of complex structures or activities in the human body. One of the most common processing methods applied to those images is segmentation, in which an image is divided into a set of regions of interest. Human anatomical complexity and medical image acquisition artifacts make segmentation of medical images very complex. Thus, several solutions have been proposed to automate image segmentation. However, most existing solutions use prior knowledge and/or require strong interaction with the user. In this paper, we propose a multi-agent approach for the segmentation of 3D medical images. This approach is based on a set of autonomous, interactive agents that use a modified region growing algorithm and cooperate to segment a 3D image. The first organization of agents allows region seed placement and region growing. In a second organization, agent interaction and collaboration allow segmentation refinement by merging the over-segmented regions. Experiments are conducted on magnetic resonance images of healthy and pathological brains. The obtained results are promising and demonstrate the efficiency of our method.
Towards a generic Multi-agent approach for medical image segmentation
(Springer, 2017) Bennai, Mohamed Tahar; Guessoum, Zahia; Mazouzi, Smaine; Cormier, Stéphane; Mezghiche, Mohamed