An Ingenious Segmentation Application for Brain Lesion Detection in Multimodal MR Images

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 367-374
Author(s):  
V. Murugesh ◽  
V. Sivakumar ◽  
P. Janarthanan
Author(s):  
V. Vinay Kumar ◽  
P. Grace Kanmani Prince

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (04) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Varghese Alex ◽  
Kiran Vaidhya ◽  
Subramaniam Thirunavukkarasu ◽  
Chandrasekharan Kesavadas ◽  
Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Raff ◽  
Francis D. Newman
Keyword(s):  

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 638-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. Rummeny ◽  
C. G. Torres ◽  
J. C. Kurdziel ◽  
G. Nilsen ◽  
B. Op de Beeck ◽  
...  

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of mangafodipir trisodium (MnDPDP, Teslascan) as a new contrast agent for MR imaging of the liver based on an independent evaluation of the MR images from the European phase III studies. Material and Methods: MR imaging of the liver was done at 0.5–2.0 T in 17 European centres and included T1-weighted spin-echo and gradient-echo sequences before and after administration of MnDPDP to patients at a dose of 5 μmol/kg b.w. T2-weighted images were also obtained in all cases before the i.v. injection of the agent. Images of a total of 592 patients were evaluated by 4 independent experienced radiologists who were not involved in the on-site clinical trials. Results: Statistically significantly more lesions were detected (p = 0.0014) in MnDP-DP-enhanced T1-weighted MR images than in unenhanced images. T1-weighted gradient-echo sequences were found to be superior to T1-weighted spin-echo sequences after injection of MnDPDP. The post-contrast images were found to be statistically significantly superior to the pre-contrast images in confidence in the presence of a lesion ( p≤ 0.0001), quality of lesion delineation ( p≤ 0.0001), lesion conspicuity ( p ≤ 0.0001) and in the confidence in the diagnosis of a lesion (p = 0.001). Conclusion: This independent evaluation of the European phase III trials confirmed the superiority of MnDPDP-enhanced MR images over unenhanced images for lesion detection and characterization.


Author(s):  
D. K. Patra* ◽  
S. Mondal ◽  
P. Mukherjee

For cancer detection and tissue characterization, DCE-MRI segmentation and lesion detection is a critical image analysis task. To segment breast MR images for lesion detection, a hard-clustering technique with Grammatical Fireworks algorithm (GFWA) is proposed in this paper. GFWA is a Swarm Programming (SP) system for automatically generating computer programs in any language. GFWA is used to create the cluster core for clustering the breast MR images in this article. The presence of noise and intensity inhomogeneities in MR images complicates the segmentation process. As a result, the MR images are denoised at the start, and strength inhomogeneities are corrected in the preprocessing stage. The proposed GFWA-based clustering technique is used to segment the preprocessed MR images. Finally, from the segmented images, the lesions are removed. The proposed approach is tested on 5 patients’ 25 DCE-MRI slices. The proposed method’s experimental findings are compared to those of the Grammatical Swarm (GS)-based clustering technique and the K-means algorithm. The proposed method outperforms other approaches in terms of both quantitative and qualitative results.


2017 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. v20
Author(s):  
H. Ahlström ◽  
S. Ekström ◽  
T. Sjöholm ◽  
R. Strand ◽  
J. Kullberg ◽  
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