PROBABILISTIC SEGMENTATION OF BRAIN TUMORS BASED ON MULTI-MODALITY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES

In this paper, multi-modal magnetic resonance (MR) images are integrated into a tissue profile that aims at differentiating tumor components, edema and normal tissue. This is achieved by a tissue classification technique that learns the appearance models of different tissue types based on training s...

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Main Authors: Hongmin Cai, Verma, R., Yangming Ou, Seung-koo Lee, Melhem, E.R., Davatzikos, C.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical imaging
Brain
Diffusion tensor imaging
Image analysis
Image segmentation
Magnetic analysis
Magnetic resonance
Magnetic resonance imaging
Neoplasms
Surgery
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Summary:In this paper, multi-modal magnetic resonance (MR) images are integrated into a tissue profile that aims at differentiating tumor components, edema and normal tissue. This is achieved by a tissue classification technique that learns the appearance models of different tissue types based on training samples identified by an expert and assigns tissue labels to each voxel. These tissue classifiers produce probabilistic tissue maps reflecting imaging characteristics of tumors and surrounding tissues that may be employed to aid in diagnosis, tumor boundary delineation, surgery and treatment planning. The main contributions of this work are: 1) conventional structural MR modalities are combined with diffusion tensor imaging data to create an integrated multimodality profile for brain tumors, and 2) in addition to the tumor components of enhancing and non-enhancing tumor types, edema is also characterized as a separate class in our framework. Classification performance is tested on 22 diverse tumor cases using cross-validation.
ISSN:1945-7928
1945-8452
DOI:10.1109/ISBI.2007.356923