Title :
Investigate the MRI Texture Features of Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
Author :
Sun, Ming ; Tong, Zhongyong ; Nie, Shujun ; Yang, Miao ; Tong, Longzheng
Author_Institution :
Capital Univ. of Med. Sci., Beijing
Abstract :
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease mainly injuring white matter. Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques can improve the detection and quantification of MS. The objective of this study was to observe that whether there is a certain pattern in the changes of texture features in NAWM surrounding the MS lesions. The results corroborate the point. A new method of radiation growth to the segmentation of MS lesions was applied in this study. These results may be of value to further studies on predicting MS.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; diseases; image segmentation; image texture; medical image processing; MRI texture features; chronic inflammatory disease; lesions segmentation; multiple sclerosis; quantitative magnetic resonance imaging techniques; white matter; Biomedical imaging; Diseases; Entropy; Image analysis; Image texture analysis; Lesions; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical diagnostic imaging; Multiple sclerosis; Radiology; MR image; multiple sclerosis; radiation growth; texture analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Complex Medical Engineering, 2007. CME 2007. IEEE/ICME International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1077-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1078-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICCME.2007.4381843
