2010 Winter Project Week TBISegmentation

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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. Full assessment of these injuries is possible via multi-modality imaging, here T1w, T2, T1-postcontrast, Flair (fluid attenuated inversion recovery), SWI (susceptibility weighted imaging), DTI). Joint analysis of these modalities requires co-registration of these sets which come with different orientations, spatial resolution and head coverage. Segmentation of brain tissue, fluid and pathology requires efficient procedures for multi-modal analysis of images with classification of lesions. Preferably, such a procedure should be automatic given the presence of small-scale pathology such as lesions, bleedings and ventricular shape alterations, or involve efficient, easy and intuitive expert interaction to support an automated classification algorithm.

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.

References