Title
Parkinson's disease prediction using diffusion-based atlas approach
Date Issued
01 January 2010
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Université de Franche-Comté
Publisher(s)
SPIE
Abstract
We study Parkinson's disease (PD) using an automatic specialized diffusion-based atlas. A total of 47 subjects, among who 22 patients diagnosed clinically with PD and 25 control cases, underwent DTI imaging. The EPIs have lower resolution but provide essential anisotropy information for the fiber tracking process. The two volumes of interest (VOI) represented by the Substantia Nigra and the Putamen are detected on the EPI and FA respectively. We use the VOIs for the geometry-based registration. We fuse the anatomical detail detected on FA image for the putamen volume with the EPI. After 3D fibers growing on the two volumes, we compute the fiber density (FD) and the fiber volume (FV). Furthermore, we compare patients based on the extracted fibers and evaluate them according to Hohen&Yahr (H&Y) scale. This paper introduces the method used for automatic volume detection and evaluates the fiber growing method on these volumes. Our approach is important from the clinical standpoint, providing a new tool for the neurologists to evaluate and predict PD evolution. From the technical point of view, the fusion approach deals with the tensor based information (EPI) and the extraction of the anatomical detail (FA and EPI).
Volume
7624
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Radiología, Medicina nuclear, Imágenes médicas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84956860861
ISSN of the container
16057422
ISBN of the container
9780819480255
Conference
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE: Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis
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