Texture analysis of computed tomography images of acute ischemic stroke patients

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

M.s. Oliveira²  P.t. Fernandes¹  W.m. Avelar¹  S.l.m. Santos¹  G. Castellano²  L.m. Li¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin Departamento de Raios Cósmicos e Cronologia

关键词: Texture analysis;    Computed tomography;    Thrombolysis;    Discriminant analysis;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-879X2009005000034

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Computed tomography (CT) images are routinely used to assess ischemic brain stroke in the acute phase. They can provide important clues about whether to treat the patient by thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator. However, in the acute phase, the lesions may be difficult to detect in the images using standard visual analysis. The objective of the present study was to determine if texture analysis techniques applied to CT images of stroke patients could differentiate between normal tissue and affected areas that usually go unperceived under visual analysis. We performed a pilot study in which texture analysis, based on the gray level co-occurrence matrix, was applied to the CT brain images of 5 patients and of 5 control subjects and the results were compared by discriminant analysis. Thirteen regions of interest, regarding areas that may be potentially affected by ischemic stroke, were selected for calculation of texture parameters. All regions of interest for all subjects were classified as lesional or non-lesional tissue by an expert neuroradiologist. Visual assessment of the discriminant analysis graphs showed differences in the values of texture parameters between patients and controls, and also between texture parameters for lesional and non-lesional tissue of the patients. This suggests that texture analysis can indeed be a useful tool to help neurologists in the early assessment of ischemic stroke and quantification of the extent of the affected areas.

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