A Robust Method for Ventriculomegaly Detection from Neonatal Brain Ultrasound Images

Ventriculomegaly is the most commonly detected abnormality in neonatal brain. It can be defined as a condition when the human brain ventricle system becomes dilated. This in turn increases the intracranial pressure inside the skull resulting in progressive enlargement of the head. Sometimes it may a...

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Published in:Journal of medical systems 2012-10, Vol.36 (5), p.2817-2828
Main Authors: Mondal, Prasenjit, Mukhopadhyay, Jayanta, Sural, Shamik, Majumdar, Arun Kumar, Majumdar, Bandana, Mukherjee, Suchandra, Singh, Arun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain
Cerebral Ventricles - diagnostic imaging
Gestational Age
Health Informatics
Health Sciences
Humans
Hydrocephalus - diagnosis
Hydrocephalus - diagnostic imaging
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods
Image processing systems
Infant, Newborn
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Neurological disorders
Newborn babies
Original Paper
Statistics for Life Sciences
Ultrasonic imaging
Ultrasonography
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Summary:Ventriculomegaly is the most commonly detected abnormality in neonatal brain. It can be defined as a condition when the human brain ventricle system becomes dilated. This in turn increases the intracranial pressure inside the skull resulting in progressive enlargement of the head. Sometimes it may also cause mental disability or death. For these reasons early detection of ventriculomegaly has become an important task. In order to identify ventriculomegaly from neonatal brain ultrasound images, we propose an automated image processing based approach that measures the anterior horn width as the distance between medial wall and floor of the lateral ventricle at the widest point. Measurement is done in the plane of the scan at the level of the intraventricular foramina. Our study is based on neonatal brain ultrasound images in the midline coronal view. In addition to ventriculomegaly detection, this work also includes both cross sectional and longitudinal study of anterior horn width of lateral ventricles. Experiments were carried out on brain ultrasound images of 96 neonates with gestational age ranging from 26 to 39 weeks and results have been verified with the ground truth provided by doctors. Accuracy of the proposed scheme is quite promising.
ISSN:0148-5598
1573-689X
DOI:10.1007/s10916-011-9760-8