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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Novel User-Friendly Application for MRI Segmentation of Brain Resection following Epilepsy Surgery.

Roberto Billardello, Georgios Ntolkeras, Assia Chericoni, Joseph R Madsen, Christos Papadelis, Phillip L Pearl, Patricia Ellen Grant, Fabrizio Taffoni, Eleonora Tamilia

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Roberto BillardelloFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC), Newborn Medicine Division, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Georgios NtolkerasFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC), Newborn Medicine Division, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2281-035X
Assia ChericoniFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC), Newborn Medicine Division, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Joseph R MadsenEpilepsy Surgery Program, Department of Neurosurgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Christos PapadelisJane and John Justin Neurosciences Center, Cook Children's Health Care System, Fort Worth, TX 76104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6125-9217
Phillip L PearlDivision of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6373-1068
Patricia Ellen GrantFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC), Newborn Medicine Division, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1005-4013
Fabrizio TaffoniAdvanced Robotics and Human-Centered Technologies-CREO Lab, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 00128 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3215-1375
Eleonora TamiliaFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC), Newborn Medicine Division, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1235-3052
Boston Children's Hospital · USCook Children's Health Care System · USUniversità Campus Bio-Medico · IT

Funding

Genetic Analysis and Manipulation Core (GAEC)P50HD105351 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Hisashi Umemori · 2021 to 2026
$9.4M
Boston Children's Hospital 2021 Office of Faculty Development/ICCTR/Harvard Catalyst Career Development FellowshipsNICHD NIH HHS P50 HD105351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Delineation of resected brain cavities on magnetic resonance images (MRIs) of epilepsy surgery patients is essential for neuroimaging/neurophysiology studies investigating biomarkers of the epileptogenic zone. The gold standard to delineate the resection on MRI remains manual slice-by-slice tracing by experts. Here, we proposed and validated a semiautomated MRI segmentation pipeline, generating an accurate model of the resection and its anatomical labeling, and developed a graphical user interface (GUI) for user-friendly usage. We retrieved pre- and postoperative MRIs from 35 patients who had focal epilepsy surgery, implemented a region-growing algorithm to delineate the resection on postoperative MRIs and tested its performance while varying different tuning parameters. Similarity between our output and hand-drawn gold standards was evaluated via dice similarity coefficient (DSC; range: 0-1). Additionally, the best segmentation pipeline was trained to provide an automated anatomical report of the resection (based on presurgical brain atlas). We found that the best-performing set of parameters presented DSC of 0.83 (0.72-0.85), high robustness to seed-selection variability and anatomical accuracy of 90% to the clinical postoperative MRI report. We presented a novel user-friendly open-source GUI that implements a semiautomated segmentation pipeline specifically optimized to generate resection models and their anatomical reports from epilepsy surgery patients, while minimizing user interaction.

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brain resectionepilepsy surgeryimage segmentationMRIregion growing

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PMID35454065
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