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ArticleNeuroImage. Clinical2019

Brain structure segmentation in the presence of multiple sclerosis lesions.

Sandra González-Villà, Arnau Oliver, Yuankai Huo, Xavier Lladó, Bennett A Landman

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Sandra González-VillàInstitute of Computer Vision and Robotics, University of Girona, Ed. P-IV, Campus Montilivi, 17003 Girona, Spain; Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA. Electronic address: sgonzalez@eia.udg.edu.
Arnau OliverInstitute of Computer Vision and Robotics, University of Girona, Ed. P-IV, Campus Montilivi, 17003 Girona, Spain.
Yuankai HuoElectrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
Xavier LladóInstitute of Computer Vision and Robotics, University of Girona, Ed. P-IV, Campus Montilivi, 17003 Girona, Spain.
Bennett A LandmanElectrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.

Funding

Smartphone-Based "Burst" Cognitive AssessmentsP01AG003991 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI JOHN MORRIS · 1985 to 2026
$69.5M
The natural history of AB accumulation in preclinical ADP01AG026276 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MORRIS, JOHN · 2005 to 2025
$49.5M
The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR)UL1TR000445 · NCATS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BERNARD, GORDON RAPHAEL · 2012 to 2016
$41.4M
Controlling Quality and Capturing Uncertainty in Advanced Diffusion Weighted MRIR01EB017230 · NIBIB · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI LANDMAN, BENNETT A. · 2015 to 2024
$5.1M
GPU-Accelerated Parallel Computer for Drug Discovery ApplicationsS10OD020154 · OD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI SMITH, JARROD ANSON · 2015 to 2015
$225k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000445NIA NIH HHS P01 AG003991NIA NIH HHS P01 AG026276NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB017230NIH HHS S10 OD020154
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intensity-based multi-atlas segmentation strategies have shown to be particularly successful in segmenting brain images of healthy subjects. However, in the same way as most of the methods in the state of the art, their performance tends to be affected by the presence of MRI visible lesions, such as those found in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Here, we present an approach to minimize the effect of the abnormal lesion intensities on multi-atlas segmentation. We propose a new voxel/patch correspondence model for intensity-based multi-atlas label fusion strategies that leads to more accurate similarity measures, having a key role in the final brain segmentation. We present the theory of this model and integrate it into two well-known fusion strategies: Non-local Spatial STAPLE (NLSS) and Joint Label Fusion (JLF). The experiments performed show that our proposal improves the segmentation performance of the lesion areas. The results indicate a mean Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) improvement of 1.96% for NLSS (3.29% inside and 0.79% around the lesion masks) and, an improvement of 2.06% for JLF (2.31% inside and 1.42% around lesions). Furthermore, we show that, with the proposed strategy, the well-established preprocessing step of lesion filling can be disregarded, obtaining similar or even more accurate segmentation results.

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Atlases as TopicBrainDatasets as TopicHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingMultiple SclerosisBrain structuresLabel fusionMRIMulti-atlasMultiple sclerosis lesionsParcellationSegmentation

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PMID30822719
PMCPMC6396016

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