Robustness of the brain parenchymal fraction for measuring brain atrophy

M. Stella Atkins; Jeffery J. Orchard; Benjamin Law; Melanie K. Tory

doi:10.1117/12.467153

9 May 2002 Robustness of the brain parenchymal fraction for measuring brain atrophy

M. Stella Atkins, Jeffery J. Orchard, Benjamin Law, Melanie K. Tory

Proceedings Volume 4684, Medical Imaging 2002: Image Processing; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467153
Event: Medical Imaging 2002, 2002, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Other researchers have proposed that the brain parenchymal fraction (or brain atrophy) may be a good surrogate measure for disease progression in patients with Multiple Sclerosis. This paper considers various factors influencing the measure of the brain parenchymal fraction obtained from dual spin-echo PD and T2-weighted head MRI scans. We investigate the robustness of the brain parenchymal fraction with respect to two factors: brain-mask border placement which determines the brain intra-dural volume, and brain scan incompleteness. We show that an automatic method for brain segmentation produces an atrophy measure which is fairly sensitive to the brain-mask placement. We also show that a robust, reproducible brain atrophy measure can be obtained from incomplete brain scans, using data in a centrally placed subvolume of the brain.

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M. Stella Atkins, Jeffery J. Orchard, Benjamin Law, and Melanie K. Tory "Robustness of the brain parenchymal fraction for measuring brain atrophy", Proc. SPIE 4684, Medical Imaging 2002: Image Processing, (9 May 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467153

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