Symmetry analysis to detect pathological brain in MRI

Enmin Song; Qian Wang; Guangzhi Ma

doi:10.1117/12.750987

14 November 2007 Symmetry analysis to detect pathological brain in MRI

Enmin Song, Qian Wang, Guangzhi Ma

Proceedings Volume 6789, MIPPR 2007: Medical Imaging, Parallel Processing of Images, and Optimization Techniques; 67891F (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.750987
Event: International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 2007, Wuhan, China

Abstract

This paper focuses on the symmetry analysis for brain MRI images in 2D slices. It can be used to detect 2D pathological brain automatically. The main challenges in this work are the extraction of the geometry symmetry axis (GSA) from both normal and pathological neuroimages and the quantification of the symmetry for the gray level distribution (GLS) of the brain with the GSA. We present a fast approach to extract the GSA based on a group of assistant parallel lines and to make veracity estimation for the GSA using the resultant moment of gravitational force (RMGF), followed by quantification for the two hemispheres partitioned by the GSA based on the correlation to the GLS. Finally, the quantification results are considered as a feature to distinguish the normal and abnormal brain slices. In the experiment result, the mean running time of each symmetry quantization measure for 181×217 2D 8bits MRI images was 0.91 seconds, the area of the corresponding ROC curve to distinguish the normal and abnormal brain of this approach is 0.9628, which shows that to detect the pathological brain in MRI based on this symmetry analysis is fast and effective.

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Enmin Song, Qian Wang, and Guangzhi Ma "Symmetry analysis to detect pathological brain in MRI", Proc. SPIE 6789, MIPPR 2007: Medical Imaging, Parallel Processing of Images, and Optimization Techniques, 67891F (14 November 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.750987

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