Lesion segmentation from multimodal MRI using random forest following ischemic stroke

NeuroImage

Volumn 98, Issue , 2014, Pages 324-335

  Mitra, Jhimli ^a   Bourgeat, Pierrick ^a   Fripp, Jurgen ^a   Ghose, Soumya ^a   Rose, Stephen ^a   Salvado, Olivier ^a   Connelly, Alan ^b   Campbell, Bruce ^c   Palmer, Susan ^b   Sharma, Gagan ^c   Christensen, Soren ^c   Carey, Leeanne ^b,d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic stroke; FLAIR MRI; Ischemic infarct; Lesion likelihood; Markov random field; Random forest; Secondary lesions; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOM FOREST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER LESION; ALGORITHM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84902963261     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.056     Document Type: Article

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