A voxel-based measure of discrete compactness for brain imaging

Author

Bribiesca, E. ; Jimenez, J.R. ; Medina, V. ; Valdes, R. ; Yanez, O.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

910

Abstract

A voxel-based measure of discrete compactness for brain structures quantification, is presented. The work proposed here simplifies the measure of discrete compactness, which corresponds to the sum of the contact surface areas of the face-connected voxels of the analyzed brain. A relation between the area of the surface enclosing the cerebral volume and the contact surface area is presented. Finally, in order to prove our voxel-based measure of compactness, we calculate the measures of discrete compactness of global gray and white matter and the ventricles of a brain.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; brain; image reconstruction; image registration; image segmentation; medical image processing; neurophysiology; brain imaging; cerebral volume; contact surface areas; discrete compactness measurement; global gray; ventricles; voxel; white matter; Area measurement; Brain; Computer science; Coordinate measuring machines; Electric variables measurement; Image segmentation; Pathology; Shape measurement; Solids; Volume measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1279913

Filename

1279913