Estimating rodent brain volume by a deformable contour model
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- Áreas de investigación:
- Año:
- 2017
- Tipo de publicación:
- Artículo en conferencia
- Palabras clave:
- Brain volume, contour model, image segmentation, medical image
- Autores:
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- Camacho-Cañamón, Julio
- Carreira, María J.
- Gutiérrez, Pedro Antonio
- Iglesias-Rey, Ramón
- Volumen:
- 723
- Título del libro:
- Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis ( MIUA 2017)
- Serie:
- Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
- Páginas:
- 686-697
- Organización:
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Mes:
- 11th-13th July
- ISBN:
- 978-3-319-60963-8
- BibTex:
- Abstract:
- Cerebral stroke is a cerebrovascular disease caused by an alteration of blood flow to the brain. Rodents are used to experiment with drugs provoking a stroke and studying the effects of different drugs as a measure of the relation of lesion volume to brain volume. Nowadays, clinicians are performing these experiments manually, leading to interhuman errors and not repeatability, of results, as well as being time-consuming tasks. This paper presents a methodology to automate this task, performing an automatic computation of the brain volume from the brain area for each slice of the rodent brain. Although in its initial state, results are very promising, and so work will follow in this way with the computation of lesion volume.