MR contrast synthesis for lesion segmentation

Snehashis Roy, Aaron Carass, Navid Shiee, Dzung Pham, Jerry L. Prince

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Abstract

The magnetic resonance contrast of a neuroimaging data set has strong impact on the utility of the data in image analysis tasks, such as registration and segmentation. Lengthy acquisition times often prevent routine acquisition of multiple MR contrast images, and opportunities for detailed analysis using these data would seem to be irrevocably lost. This paper describes an example based approach which uses patch matching from a multiple contrast atlas with the intended goal of generating an alternate MR contrast image, thus effectively simulating alternative pulse sequences from one another. In this paper, we deal specifically with Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) sequence generation from T1 and T2 pulse sequences. The applicability of this synthetic FLAIR for estimating white matter lesions segmentation is demonstrated.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2010 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010 - Proceedings
Pages932-935
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010 - Rotterdam, Netherlands
Duration: Apr 14 2010Apr 17 2010

Publication series

Name2010 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010 - Proceedings

Other

Other7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityRotterdam
Period4/14/104/17/10

Keywords

  • Classification
  • Image resolution
  • Image segmentation
  • MRI

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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