Modeling glioma growth and mass effect in 3D MR images of the brain

Cosmina Hogea, Christos Davatzikos, George Biros

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Abstract

In this article, we propose a framework for modeling glioma growth and the subsequent mechanical impact on the surrounding brain tissue (mass-effect) in a medical imaging context. Glioma growth is modeled via nonlinear reaction-advection-diffusion, with a two-way coupling with the underlying tissue elastic deformation. Tumor bulk and infiltration and subsequent mass-effects are not regarded separately, but captured by the model itself in the course of its evolution, Our formulation is fully Eulerian and naturally allows for updating the tumor diffusion coefficient following structural displacements caused by tumor growth/infiltration. We show that model parameters can be estimated via optimization based on imaging data, using efficient solution algorithms on regular grids. We test the model and the automatic optimization framework on real brain tumor data sets, achieving significant improvement in landmark prediction compared to a simplified purely mechanical approach.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - 10th International Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages642-650
Number of pages9
EditionPART 1
ISBN (Print)9783540757566
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2007 - Brisbane, Australia
Duration: Oct 29 2007Nov 2 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume4791 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2007
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityBrisbane
Period10/29/0711/2/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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