TY - GEN
T1 - Automated segmentation of white matter lesions in 3D brain MR images, using multivariate pattern classification
AU - Lao, Zhiqiang
AU - Shen, Dinggang
AU - Jawad, Abbas
AU - Karacali, Bilge
AU - Liu, Dengfeng
AU - Melhem, Elias R.
AU - Bryan, R. Nick
AU - Davatzikos, Christos
PY - 2006/11/17
Y1 - 2006/11/17
N2 - This paper presents a fully automatic white matter lesion (WML) segmentation method, based on local features determined by combining multiple MR acquisition protocols, including T1-weighted, T2-weighted, proton density (PD)-weighted and fluid attenuation inversion recovery (FLAIR) scans. Support vector machines (SVMs) are used to integrate features from these 4 acquisition types, thereby identifying nonlinear imaging profiles that distinguish and classify WMLs from normal brain tissue. Validation on a population of 45 diabetes patients with diverse spatial and size distribution of WMLs shows the robustness and accuracy of the proposed segmentation method, compared to the manual segmentation results from two experienced neuroradiologists.
AB - This paper presents a fully automatic white matter lesion (WML) segmentation method, based on local features determined by combining multiple MR acquisition protocols, including T1-weighted, T2-weighted, proton density (PD)-weighted and fluid attenuation inversion recovery (FLAIR) scans. Support vector machines (SVMs) are used to integrate features from these 4 acquisition types, thereby identifying nonlinear imaging profiles that distinguish and classify WMLs from normal brain tissue. Validation on a population of 45 diabetes patients with diverse spatial and size distribution of WMLs shows the robustness and accuracy of the proposed segmentation method, compared to the manual segmentation results from two experienced neuroradiologists.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33750949401
SN - 0780395778
SN - 9780780395770
T3 - 2006 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro - Proceedings
SP - 307
EP - 310
BT - 2006 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
T2 - 2006 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro
Y2 - 6 April 2006 through 9 April 2006
ER -