Investigating brain tumor differentiation with diffusion and perfusion metrics at 3T MRI using pattern recognition techniques

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1567-1577

  Svolos, Patricia ^a   Tsolaki, Evangelia ^a   Kapsalaki, Eftychia ^b   Theodorou, Kyriaki ^a   Fountas, Kostas ^b   Fezoulidis, Ioannis ^b   Tsougos, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Classification; DWI DTI, DSCI; Grading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DYNAMIC SUSCEPTIBILITY CONTRAST IMAGING; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PERFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84885040910     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.06.010     Document Type: Article

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