Table 1.
A brief summary of existing methods for infant brain MR image segmentation.
| Methods | Modality | Age at scan | Longitudinal? | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infantile | Isointense | Early adult-like | |||
| (Prastawa et al., 2005) | T1, T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Weisenfeld et al., 2006a) | T1, T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Weisenfeld et al., 2006b) | T1, T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Nishida et al., 2006) | T1 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Xue et al., 2007) | T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Song et al., 2007) | T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Anbeek et al., 2008) | T2, IR | ✓ | No | ||
| (Weisenfeld and Warfield, 2009) | T1, T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Shi et al., 2010a) | T1, T2 | ✓ | ✓ | Yes | |
| (Shi et al., 2010b) | T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Shi et al., 2010c) | T1, T2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Yes |
| (Wang et al., 2011) | T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Shi et al., 2011a) | T1, T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Leroy et al., 2011) | T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Gui et al., 2012) | T1, T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Wang et al., 2012b) | T1, T2, FA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Yes |
| (Kim et al., 2013) | T1 | ✓ | No | ||
| (He and Parikh, 2013) | T2, PD | ✓ | No | ||
| (Wang et al., 2013c) | T1, T2 | ✓ | ✓ | Yes | |
| (Cardoso et al., 2013) | T1 | ✓ | No | ||
| (Wang et al., 2014) | T2 | ✓ | No | ||
| The proposed method | T1, T2, FA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | No |