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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2013

Automated identification of brain tumors from single MR images based on segmentation with refined patient-specific priors.

Ana Sanjuán, Cathy J Price, Laura Mancini, Goulven Josse, Alice Grogan, Adam K Yamamoto, Sharon Geva, Alex P Leff, Tarek A Yousry, Mohamed L Seghier

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10 authors.

Ana SanjuánWellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College of London London, UK ; Departamento de Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología, Universitat Jaume I Castellón, Spain.
Cathy J PriceWellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College of London London, UK.
Laura ManciniLysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery London, UK.
Goulven JosseHôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle épinière Paris, France.
Alice GroganWellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College of London London, UK.
Adam K YamamotoLysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery London, UK.
Sharon GevaDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College of London London, UK.
Alex P LeffWellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College of London London, UK ; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College of London London, UK.
Tarek A YousryLysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery London, UK.
Mohamed L SeghierWellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College of London London, UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 091593Wellcome Trust 097720
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain tumors can have different shapes or locations, making their identification very challenging. In functional MRI, it is not unusual that patients have only one anatomical image due to time and financial constraints. Here, we provide a modified automatic lesion identification (ALI) procedure which enables brain tumor identification from single MR images. Our method rests on (A) a modified segmentation-normalization procedure with an explicit "extra prior" for the tumor and (B) an outlier detection procedure for abnormal voxel (i.e., tumor) classification. To minimize tissue misclassification, the segmentation-normalization procedure requires prior information of the tumor location and extent. We therefore propose that ALI is run iteratively so that the output of Step B is used as a patient-specific prior in Step A. We test this procedure on real T1-weighted images from 18 patients, and the results were validated in comparison to two independent observers' manual tracings. The automated procedure identified the tumors successfully with an excellent agreement with the manual segmentation (area under the ROC curve = 0.97 ± 0.03). The proposed procedure increases the flexibility and robustness of the ALI tool and will be particularly useful for lesion-behavior mapping studies, or when lesion identification and/or spatial normalization are problematic.

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automatic lesion identificationfuzzy clusteringMRIsegmentationspatial normalization

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PMID24381535
PMCPMC3865426

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