TY - GEN
T1 - Segmentation of serial MRI of TBI patients using personalized atlas construction and topological change estimation
AU - Wang, Bo
AU - Prastawa, Marcel
AU - Awate, Suyash P.
AU - Irimia, Andrei
AU - Chambers, Micah C.
AU - Vespa, Paul M.
AU - Van Horn, John D.
AU - Gerig, Guido
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to falls, car accidents, and warfare affects millions of people annually. Determining personalized therapy and assessment of treatment efficacy can substantially benefit from longitudinal (4D) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this paper, we propose a method for segmenting longitudinal brain MR images with TBI using personalized atlas construction. Longitudinal images with TBI typically present topological changes over time due to the effect of the impact force on tissue, skull, and blood vessels and the recovery process. We address this issue by defining a novel atlas construction scheme that explicitly models the effect of topological changes. Our method automatically estimates the probability of topological changes jointly with the personalized atlas. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach on MR images with TBI that also have been segmented by human raters, where our method that integrates 4D information yields improved validation measures compared to temporally independent segmentations.
AB - Traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to falls, car accidents, and warfare affects millions of people annually. Determining personalized therapy and assessment of treatment efficacy can substantially benefit from longitudinal (4D) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this paper, we propose a method for segmenting longitudinal brain MR images with TBI using personalized atlas construction. Longitudinal images with TBI typically present topological changes over time due to the effect of the impact force on tissue, skull, and blood vessels and the recovery process. We address this issue by defining a novel atlas construction scheme that explicitly models the effect of topological changes. Our method automatically estimates the probability of topological changes jointly with the personalized atlas. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach on MR images with TBI that also have been segmented by human raters, where our method that integrates 4D information yields improved validation measures compared to temporally independent segmentations.
KW - 4D pathology segmentation
KW - atlas construction
KW - longitudinal MRI
KW - topological change estimation
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U2 - 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235764
DO - 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235764
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84864864903
SN - 9781457718588
T3 - Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
SP - 1152
EP - 1155
BT - 2012 9th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
T2 - 2012 9th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2012
Y2 - 2 May 2012 through 5 May 2012
ER -