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Ciulla C. Inverse Fourier transformation of combined first order derivative and intensity-curvature functional of magnetic resonance angiography of the human brain. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2021; 211:106384. [PMID: 34537491 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE This paper reports a novel image processing technique based on inverse Fourier transformation and its validation procedure. METHODS Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) data of the human brain is fitted on a pixel-by-pixel basis with bivariate linear model polynomial function. Polynomial fitting allows the formulation of two measures: the first order derivative (FOD), which is an edge finder, and the intensity-curvature functional (ICF), which is a high pass filter. The calculation of FOD and ICF uses knowledge provided by existing research and is performed through resampling. ICF and FOD are direct Fourier transformed, and their k-space is combined through a nonlinear convolution of terms. The resulting k-space is inverse Fourier transformed so to obtain a novel image called Fourier Convolution Image (FCI). RESULTS FCI possesses the characteristics of an edge finder (FOD) and a high pass filter (ICF). CONCLUSIONS FC images yield the following properties versus MRA: 1. Change of the contrast; 2. Increased sharpness in the proximity of human brain vessels; 3. Increased visualization of vessel connectivity. The implication of this study is to provide FCI as another viable option for MRA evaluation.
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- Carlo Ciulla
- Department of Computer Engineering, Epoka University, Rr. Tiranë-Rinas, Km. 12, Vorë, Tirana 1032, Albania.
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Saunders A, King KS, Blüml S, Wood JC, Borzage M. Algorithms for segmenting cerebral time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiograms from volunteers and anemic patients. J Med Imaging (Bellingham) 2021; 8:024005. [PMID: 33937436 PMCID: PMC8081668 DOI: 10.1117/1.jmi.8.2.024005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Purpose: To evaluate six cerebral arterial segmentation algorithms in a set of patients with a wide range of hemodynamic characteristics to determine real-world performance. Approach: Time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiograms were acquired from 33 subjects: normal controls ( N = 11 ), sickle cell disease ( N = 11 ), and non-sickle anemia ( N = 11 ) using a 3 Tesla Philips Achieva scanner. Six segmentation algorithms were tested: (1) Otsu's method, (2) K-means, (3) region growing, (4) active contours, (5) minimum cost path, and (6) U-net machine learning. Segmentation algorithms were tested with two region-selection methods: global, which selects the entire volume; and local, which iteratively tracks the arteries. Five slices were manually segmented from each patient by two readers. Agreement between manual and automatic segmentation was measured using Matthew's correlation coefficient (MCC). Results: Median algorithm segmentation times ranged from 0.1 to 172.9 s for a single angiogram versus 10 h for manual segmentation. Algorithms had inferior performance to inter-observer vessel-based ( p < 0.0001 , MCC = 0.65 ) and voxel-based ( p < 0.0001 , MCC = 0.73 ) measurements. There were significant differences between algorithms ( p < 0.0001 ) and between patients ( p < 0.0042 ). Post-hoc analyses indicated (1) local minimum cost path performed best with vessel-based ( p = 0.0261 , MCC = 0.50 ) and voxel-based ( p = 0.0131 , MCC = 0.66 ) analyses; and (2) higher vessel-based performance in non-sickle anemia ( p = 0.0002 ) and lower voxel-based performance in sickle cell ( p = 0.0422 ) compared with normal controls. All reported MCCs are medians. Conclusions: The best-performing algorithm (local minimum cost path, voxel-based) had 9.59% worse performance than inter-observer agreement but was 3 orders of magnitude faster. Automatic segmentation was non-inferior in patients with sickle cell disease and superior in non-sickle anemia.
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- Alexander Saunders
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Radiology, Los Angeles, California, United States
- Rudi Schulte Research Institute, Santa Barbara, California, United States
- University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Advanced Imaging and Spectroscopy Center, Pasadena, California, United States
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- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Radiology, Los Angeles, California, United States
- Rudi Schulte Research Institute, Santa Barbara, California, United States
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- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Division of Cardiology, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Rudi Schulte Research Institute, Santa Barbara, California, United States
- University of Southern California, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Fetal and Neonatal Institute, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles, California, United States
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Morin F, Courtecuisse H, Reinertsen I, Le Lann F, Palombi O, Payan Y, Chabanas M. Brain-shift compensation using intraoperative ultrasound and constraint-based biomechanical simulation. Med Image Anal 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2017.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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He T, Cao L, Balas VE, McCauley P, Shi F. Curvature manipulation of the spectrum of Valence-Arousal-related fMRI dataset using Gaussian-shaped Fast Fourier Transform and its application to fuzzy KANSEI adjectives modeling. Neurocomputing 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2015.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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GUO LI, ZHANG YUNTING, ZHANG ZEWEI, LI DONGYUE, LI YING. AN IMPROVED RANDOM WALK SEGMENTATION ON THE LUNG NODULES. INT J BIOMATH 2013. [DOI: 10.1142/s1793524513500435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In this paper, we proposed a semi-automatic technique with a marker indicating the target to locate and segment nodules. For the lung nodule detection, we develop a Gabor texture feature by FCM (Fuzzy C Means) segmentation. Given a marker indicating a rough location of the nodules, a decision process is followed by applying an ellipse fitting algorithm. From the ellipse mask, the foreground and background seeds for the random walk segmentation can be automatically obtained. Finally, the edge of the nodules is obtained by the random walk algorithm. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are evaluated with the various types of the nodules to identify the edges, so that it can be used to locate the nodule edge and its growth rate.
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- LI GUO
- School of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300203, P. R. China
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- General Hospital, Radiology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300203, P. R. China
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- School of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300203, P. R. China
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- School of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300203, P. R. China
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- General Hospital, Radiology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300203, P. R. China
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Three-dimensional skeletonization and symbolic description in vascular imaging: preliminary results. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg 2012; 8:233-46. [DOI: 10.1007/s11548-012-0784-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2012] [Accepted: 07/11/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Dewalle-Vignion AS, Makni N, Betrouni N, Huglo D, Stute S, Buvat I, Vermandel M. Nouvelle méthode de segmentation des volumes d’intérêt en TEP : utilisation de la théorie des possibilités. Ing Rech Biomed 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.irbm.2011.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Dewalle-Vignion AS, Betrouni N, Lopes R, Huglo D, Stute S, Vermandel M. A new method for volume segmentation of PET images, based on possibility theory. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2011; 30:409-423. [PMID: 20952337 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2010.2083681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18FDG PET) has become an essential technique in oncology. Accurate segmentation and uptake quantification are crucial in order to enable objective follow-up, the optimization of radiotherapy planning, and therapeutic evaluation. We have designed and evaluated a new, nearly automatic and operator-independent segmentation approach. This incorporated possibility theory, in order to take into account the uncertainty and inaccuracy inherent in the image. The approach remained independent of PET facilities since it did not require any preliminary calibration. Good results were obtained from phantom images [percent error =18.38% (mean) ± 9.72% (standard deviation)]. Results on simulated and anatomopathological data sets were quantified using different similarity measures and showed the method was efficient (simulated images: Dice index =82.18% ± 13.53% for SUV =2.5 ). The approach could, therefore, be an efficient and robust tool for uptake volume segmentation, and lead to new indicators for measuring volume of interest activity.
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Verscheure L, Peyrodie L, Makni N, Betrouni N, Maouche S, Vermandel M. Dijkstra's algorithm applied to 3D skeletonization of the brain vascular tree: evaluation and application to symbolic. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2010; 2010:3081-4. [PMID: 21095739 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2010.5626112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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This paper describes the methodology and the evaluation of a 3D skeletonization algorithm applied on brain vascular structure. This method is based on the application of the minimum cost-spanning tree using Dijkstra's algorithm and seems well appropriate to tubular objects. We briefly describe the different steps, from the segmentation to the skeleton analysis. Besides, we propose an original evaluation scheme of the method based on digital phantom and clinical data. The final aim of this work is to provide a symbolic description framework applied to cerebro-vascular structures.
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- L Verscheure
- Inserm, U703 research unit. THAIS. Institut Hippocrate, 152 rue du Docteur Yersin 59120 Loos CHRU de Lille France.
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Dewalle-Vignion AS, Betrouni N, Makni N, Huglo D, Rousseau J, Vermandel M. A new method based on both fuzzy set and possibility theories for tumor volume segmentation on PET images. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2008; 2008:3122-3125. [PMID: 19163368 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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A new automatic method for tumor volume segmentation on PET images has been developed. The method introduced in this paper is based on previous works in MRA segmentation and involves both fuzzy set and possibility theories. Visual results prove the method efficiency which is confirmed by obtained Jaccard index.
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Betrouni N, Puech P, Dewalle AS, Lopes R, Dubois P, Vermandel M. 3D automatic segmentation and reconstruction of prostate on MR images. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 2007:5259-62. [DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2007.4353528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Vermandel M, Betrouni N, Viard R, Dewalle A, Blond S, Rousseau J. Combining MIP images and fuzzy set principles for vessels segmentation: application to TOF MRA and CE-MRA. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 2007:6256-9. [DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2007.4353785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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