Unsupervised Pathological Area Extraction using 3D T2 and FLAIR MR Images

Measurement Science Review

Bartušek Karel¹  Smékal Zdeněk²  Dvořák Pavel² 

[1] ASCR, Institute of Scientific Instruments, Kralovopolska 147, 612 64 Brno, Czech Republic;Deptartment of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 12, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic.;

关键词: brain tumor;    brain tumor segmentation;    extraction;    magnetic resonance;    mri;    pathology;    segmentation;    symmetry analysis;   

DOI  :  10.2478/msr-2014-0049

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This work discusses fully automated extraction of brain tumor and edema in 3D MR volumes. The goal of this work is the extraction of the whole pathological area using such an algorithm that does not require a human intervention. For the good visibility of these kinds of tissues both T2-weighted and FLAIR images were used. The proposed method was tested on 80 MR volumes of publicly available BRATS database, which contains high and low grade gliomas, both real and simulated. The performance was evaluated by the Dice coefficient, where the results were differentiated between high and low grade and real and simulated gliomas. The method reached promising results for all of the combinations of images: real high grade (0.73 ± 0.20), real low grade (0.81 ± 0.06), simulated high grade (0.81 ± 0.14), and simulated low grade (0.81 ± 0.04).

【 授权许可】

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