2010 Winter Project Week TBISegmentation
Key Investigators
- Marcel Prastawa, Guido Gerig, University of Utah
- Ron Kikinis, BWH
- UCLA
Objective
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is caused by severe impact to the brain, which may result in skull fracture, lesions, and internal bleeding. Treatment for TBI involves significant surgery. The complication involved necessitates multiple imaging scans, such as CT for planning the surgeries and multimodal MRI for assessing the surgical treatment. We plan to study the process that occur in typical TBI patients and determine regions that are damaged and how they behave. The first step in analyzing these patient data is the segmentation of the different regions (edema, bleeding, etc) from multiple MRI modalities (T1w, T2w, T2w-blood, SWI).
Approach, Plan
We propose an atlas based segmentation method, which makes use of normative data (spatial and intensity) for isolating abnormal regions that are likely due to injury.
Progress
We have a working program written in C++ using ITK. We will wrap it as a Slicer module.
