Detecting small anatomical change with 3D serial MR subtraction images

Mark Holden; Erica R. E. Denton; J. M. Jarosz; T. C.S. Cox; Colin Studholme; David John Hawkes; Derek L.G. Hill

doi:10.1117/12.348594

21 May 1999 Detecting small anatomical change with 3D serial MR subtraction images

Mark Holden, Erica R. E. Denton, J. M. Jarosz, T. C.S. Cox, Colin Studholme, David John Hawkes, Derek L.G. Hill

Proceedings Volume 3661, Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.348594
Event: Medical Imaging '99, 1999, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Spoiled gradient echo volume MR scans were obtained from 5 growth hormone (GH) patients and 6 normal controls. The patients were scanned before treatment and after 3 and 6 months of GH therapy. The controls were scanned at similar intervals. A calibration phantom was scanned on the same day as each subject. The phantom images were registered with a 9 degree of freedom algorithm to measure scaling errors due to changes in scanner calibration. The second and third images were each registered with a 6 degree of freedom algorithm to the first (baseline) image by maximizing normalized mutual information, and transformed, with and without scaling error correction, using sinc interpolation. Each registered and transformed image had the baseline image subtracted to generate a difference image. Two neuro-radiologists were trained to detect structural change with difference images containing synthetic misregistration and scale changes. They carried out a blinded assessment of anatomical change for the unregistered; aligned and subtracted; and scale corrected, aligned and subtracted images. The results show a significant improvement in the detection of structural change and inter-observer agreement when aligned and subtracted images were used instead of unregistered ones. The structural change corresponded to an increase in brain: CSF ratio.

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Mark Holden, Erica R. E. Denton, J. M. Jarosz, T. C.S. Cox, Colin Studholme, David John Hawkes, and Derek L.G. Hill "Detecting small anatomical change with 3D serial MR subtraction images", Proc. SPIE 3661, Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing, (21 May 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.348594

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