Multimodal MRI segmentation of ischemic stroke lesions

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007:2007:1595-8. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352610.

Abstract

The problem addressed in this paper is the automatic segmentation of stroke lesions on MR multi-sequences. Lesions enhance differently depending on the MR modality and there is an obvious gain in trying to account for various sources of information in a single procedure. To this aim, we propose a multimodal Markov random field model which includes all MR modalities simultaneously. The results of the multimodal method proposed are compared with those obtained with a mono-dimensional segmentation applied on each MRI sequence separately. We constructed an Atlas of blood supply territories to help clinicians in the determination of stroke subtypes and potential functional deficit.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Brain Ischemia / etiology
  • Brain Ischemia / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Image Enhancement / methods
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Stroke / complications
  • Stroke / pathology*
  • Subtraction Technique*