Hierarchical Conditional Random Fields for Outlier Detection: An Application to Detecting Epileptogenic Cortical Malformations

Bilal Ahmed, Thomas Thesen, Karen E. Blackmon, Yijun Zhao, Orrin Devinsky, Ruben Kuzniecky, Carla E. Brodley

Abstract: We cast the problem of detecting and isolating regions of abnormal cortical tissue in the MRIs of epilepsy patients in an image segmentation framework. Employing a multiscale approach we divide the...