Differentiation of sCJD and vCJD forms by automated analysis of basal ganglia intensity distribution in multisequence MRI of the brain-definition and evaluation of new MRI-based ratios

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1052-1067

  Linguraru, Marius George ^a,b   Ayache, Nicholas ^a   Bardinet, Eric ^c   Ballester, Miguel Ángel González ^a,d   Galanaud, Damien ^e,f   Haïk, Stéphane ^e   Faucheux, Baptiste ^e   Hauw, Jean Jacques ^e   Cozzone, Patrick ^f   Dormont, Didier ^c,d   Brandel, Jean Philippe ^e  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^f University of Aix Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD); Grey matter (GM); Human visual system model; Intensity quantification; Internal nuclei; Multisequence magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain; Normalization, registration; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEINS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE (CJD); ENCEPHALOPATHY; GREY MATTER (GM); HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM MODEL; INTENSITY QUANTIFICATION; INTERNAL NUCLEI; MULTISEQUENCE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTISEQUENCE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) OF THE BRAIN; NORMALIZATION, REGISTRATION;

DISEASES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BASAL GANGLION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASAL GANGLIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33746927953     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.876133     Document Type: Article

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