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Image Display, Enhancement, and Analysis. IDEA. Development and Dissemination of Robust Brain MRI Measurement Tools ( 1R01EB006733 ). Dinggang Shen. Department of Radiology and BRIC UNC-Chapel Hill. UNC-Chapel Hill - Dinggang Shen - Guorong Wu (postdoc) - Minjeong Kim (postdoc).
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Image Display, Enhancement, and Analysis IDEA Development and Dissemination of Robust Brain MRI Measurement Tools (1R01EB006733) Dinggang Shen • Department of Radiology and BRIC • UNC-Chapel Hill
UNC-Chapel Hill - Dinggang Shen - Guorong Wu (postdoc) - Minjeong Kim (postdoc) GE - Jim Miller - Xiaodong Tao Team
Goal of this project • To further developHAMMER registration and white matter lesion (WML) segmentation algorithms, for improving their robustness and performance. • To design separate software modules for these two algorithms and incorporate them into the3D Slicer.
Progress of HAMMER in 2009 • Successfully implemented HAMMER in ITK. (Over 2,000 lines of code) • Integrated HAMMER into Slicer3 • Verified and tested its performance in Slicer3 Input Subject AC/PC Skull Striping Segmentation
Progress of HAMMER in 2009 Typical Registration Result of HAMMER in Slicer3 Template Average of 18 aligned images Subject Registration result
Progress of HAMMER in 2009 RABBIT: To speed up our HAMMER registration algorithm (1.5 hours) e2 12~15 minutes Template e1 (1.5 hours) Subject • Tang et. al., RABBIT: Rapid Alignment of Brains by Building Intermediate Templates. Neuroimage, 47(4):1277-87, Oct 1 2009.
Progress of HAMMER in 2009 Construct a statistical deformation model e2 e1 Estimate an intermediate deformation/template 12~15 mins Refine the intermediate deformation field Subject • Tang et. al., RABBIT: Rapid Alignment of Brains by Building Intermediate Templates. Neuroimage, 47(4):1277-87, Oct 1 2009.
Progress of HAMMER in 2009 TPS-HAMMER: • Use soft correspondence detection to robustly establish correspondences for the driving voxels • Use Thin Plate Splines (TPS) to effectively interpolate deformation fields, based on those estimated at the driving voxels • Wu et. al., TPS-HAMMER: Improving HAMMER Registration Algorithm by Soft Correspondence Matching and Thin-Plate Splines Based Deformation Interpolation. Neuroimage, 49(3):2225-2233, Feb 2010.
Work Plan of HAMMER in 2010 • Further improve HAMMER in Slicer3 • Implement RABBIT to speedup the registration • Implement TPS-HAMMER in ITK • Implement intensity-HAMMER in ITK • Serve HAMMER user community • To provide training and tutorial • To provide technical support • To develop user-friendly interface to the end user
WML Segmentation • Attribute vector for each point v FLAIR PD T2 T1 Neighborhood Ω(5x5x5mm) • SVM To train a WML segmentation classifier. • Adaboost To adaptively weight the training samples and improve the generalization of WML segmentation method. • Lao, Shen, et al "Computer-Assisted Segmentation of White Matter Lesions in 3D MR images Using Support Vector Machine", Academic Radiology, 15(3):300-313, March 2008.
Progress in 2009 • We have implemented all WML segmentation components in ITK Manual Segmentation Co-registration Skull-stripping Training SVM model via training sample and Adaboost Intensity normalization Pre-processing Training Voxel-wise evaluation & segmentation False positive elimination Testing Post-processing
Progress in 2009 • Have incorporated it into Slicer3 • Developer Tools >> White Matter Lesion Segmentation
Progress in 2009 • User interface of WML segmentation in Slicer3 Training Segmentation • Input:T1, T2, PD, FLAIR images and lesion ROI of n training subjects • Output:SVM model • Input:T1, T2, PD, FLAIR images of test subject(s) and trained SVM model • Output:segmented lesion ROI
Progress in 2009 • A typical segmentation result FLAIR Our result Ground truth
Plan of 2010 • Further development of WML segmentation algorithm • Improve the robustness of multi-modality image registration (for T1/T2/PD/FLAIR) by using a novel quantitative and qualitative measurement for mutual information • Design region-adaptive classifiers, in order to allow each classifier for capturing relative simple WML intensity pattern in each region • Develop a WML atlas for guiding the WML segmentation • Upgrade of WML lesion segmentation module in Slicer3
Conclusion Further developHAMMER registration and WML segmentation algorithmsimprove their robustness and performance
Image Display, Enhancement, and Analysis IDEA Thank you! http://bric.unc.edu/IDEAgroup/ http://www.med.unc.edu/~dgshen/