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ArticleAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference2018

A Comparative Study of Automatic Approaches for Preclinical MRI-based Brain Segmentation in the Developing Rat.

Saman Sargolzaei, Yan Cai, Stephanie M Wolahan, Bilwaj Gaonkar, Arman Sargolzaei, Christopher C Giza, Neil G Harris

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Article in Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Saman Sargolzaei
Yan Cai
Stephanie M Wolahan
Bilwaj Gaonkar
Arman Sargolzaei
Christopher C Giza
Neil G Harris
University of California, Los Angeles · USFlorida Polytechnic University · US

Funding

UCLA Center for Translational Research in Neurodevelopment: UC-TRaNU54HD087101 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MCCRACKEN, JAMES T. · 2016 to 2020
$6.5M
Using glutamatergic pharmacotherapy to optimize TBI recoveryR01NS027544 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HOVDA, DAVID A · 1990 to 2017
$3.8M
A mechanism for stunted map plasticity after TBIR01NS091222 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HARRIS, NEIL · 2015 to 2019
$1.7M
NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD087101NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS027544NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS091222
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate pre-clinical study reporting requires validated processing tools to increase data reproducibility within and between laboratories. Segmentation of rodent brain from non-brain tissue is an important first step in preclinical imaging pipelines for which well validated tools are still under development. The current study aims to clarify the best approach to automatic brain extraction for studies in the immature rat. Skull stripping modules from AFNI, PCNN-3D, and RATS software packages were assessed for their ability to accurately segment brain from non-brain by comparison to manual segmentation. Comparison was performed using Dice coefficient of similarity. Results showed that the RATS package outperformed the others by including a lower percentage of false positive, non-brain voxels in the brain mask. However, AFNI resulted in a lower percentage of false negative voxels. Although the automatic approaches for brain segmentation significantly facilitate the data stream process, the current study findings suggest that the task of rodent brain segmentation from T2 weighted MRI needs to be accompanied by a supervised quality control step when developmental brain imaging studies were targeted.

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Magnetic Resonance ImagingAlgorithmsAnimalsBrainImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMaleRatsReproducibility of ResultsSoftware

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PMCPMC6354582
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