Low-contrast lesion segmentation in advanced MRI experiments by time-domain Ricker-type wavelets and fuzzy 2-means

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18450%2F22%3A50019071" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18450/22:50019071 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11150/22:10443959

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10489-022-03184-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10489-022-03184-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10489-022-03184-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10489-022-03184-1</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Low-contrast lesion segmentation in advanced MRI experiments by time-domain Ricker-type wavelets and fuzzy 2-means

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Automated suspicious region segmentation has become a crucial need for the experts dealing with numerous images containing contrast-based lesions in MRI. Not all solutions, however, are based on mathematical infrastructure or providing adequate flexibility. On the other hand, segmentation of low-contrast lesions is very challenging for researchers; therefore, advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) experiments are not commonly used in researches. Given the need of repeatability and adaptability, we present an automated framework for intelligent segmentation of brain lesions by wavelet imaging and fuzzy 2-means. Besides the general use of the wavelets in image processing, which is edge detection; we employed the second-order Ricker-type wavelets as the core of our novel imaging framework for low-contrast lesion segmentation. We firstly introduced the mathematical basis of several Ricker wavelet functions, which are in symmetrical form satisfying finite-energy and admissibility conditions of mother wavelets. Afterwards, we investigated three types of Ricker wavelets to apply on our clinical dataset containing susceptibility-weighted (SW) and minimum intensity projection SW (mIP-SW) images with barely-visible lesions. Finally, we adjusted the system parameters of the wavelets for optimization and post-segmentation by fuzzy 2-means. According to the preliminary results of the clinical experiments we conducted, our framework provided 93.53% average dice score (DSC) for SWI by Ricker-3 and 92.56% for mIP-SWI by Ricker-2 wavelet, as the main performance criteria of segmentation. Despite the lack of SWI or mIP-SWI experiments in the public datasets, we tested our framework with BraTS 2012 training sets containing real images with visible lesions and achieved an average of 88.13% DSC with 11.66% standard deviation by re-optimized framework for whole lesion segmentation, which is one of the highest among other relevant researches. In detail, 87.52% DSC for LG datasets with 11.32% standard deviation; while 88.34% DSC for HG datasets with 11.77% standard deviation are calculated. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Low-contrast lesion segmentation in advanced MRI experiments by time-domain Ricker-type wavelets and fuzzy 2-means

Popis výsledku anglicky

Automated suspicious region segmentation has become a crucial need for the experts dealing with numerous images containing contrast-based lesions in MRI. Not all solutions, however, are based on mathematical infrastructure or providing adequate flexibility. On the other hand, segmentation of low-contrast lesions is very challenging for researchers; therefore, advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) experiments are not commonly used in researches. Given the need of repeatability and adaptability, we present an automated framework for intelligent segmentation of brain lesions by wavelet imaging and fuzzy 2-means. Besides the general use of the wavelets in image processing, which is edge detection; we employed the second-order Ricker-type wavelets as the core of our novel imaging framework for low-contrast lesion segmentation. We firstly introduced the mathematical basis of several Ricker wavelet functions, which are in symmetrical form satisfying finite-energy and admissibility conditions of mother wavelets. Afterwards, we investigated three types of Ricker wavelets to apply on our clinical dataset containing susceptibility-weighted (SW) and minimum intensity projection SW (mIP-SW) images with barely-visible lesions. Finally, we adjusted the system parameters of the wavelets for optimization and post-segmentation by fuzzy 2-means. According to the preliminary results of the clinical experiments we conducted, our framework provided 93.53% average dice score (DSC) for SWI by Ricker-3 and 92.56% for mIP-SWI by Ricker-2 wavelet, as the main performance criteria of segmentation. Despite the lack of SWI or mIP-SWI experiments in the public datasets, we tested our framework with BraTS 2012 training sets containing real images with visible lesions and achieved an average of 88.13% DSC with 11.66% standard deviation by re-optimized framework for whole lesion segmentation, which is one of the highest among other relevant researches. In detail, 87.52% DSC for LG datasets with 11.32% standard deviation; while 88.34% DSC for HG datasets with 11.77% standard deviation are calculated. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF18_069%2F0010054" target="_blank" >EF18_069/0010054: IT4Neuro(degeneration)</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Applied Intelligence

ISSN

0924-669X

e-ISSN

1573-7497

Svazek periodika

52

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

15237-15258

Kód UT WoS článku

000767910400003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85126105197