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Authors: Sérgio Pereira ; José Mariz ; Nuno Sousa ; J. H. Correia and Carlos Silva

Affiliation: University of Minho, Portugal

Keyword(s): Virchow-Robin Spaces, Lacunar Stroke, MRI, Medical Image Analysis, Automatic Tool.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Bioimaging ; Biomedical Engineering ; Image Processing Methods ; Medical Imaging and Diagnosis

Abstract: Virchow-Robin Spaces surround the perforating arteries of the brain and sometimes they become dilated. Studies suggest that those structures are correlated with some conditions such as lacunar strokes, small vessel diseases, multiple sclerosis or even normal aging. However, the majority of those studies are based on the detection of those structures by a human expert, in some regions of interest, which is prone to the subjectivity of the person doing the task. Moreover, dilated Virchow-Robin Spaces may look similar to lacunar strokes, making them difficult to identify. Few works have been proposed on the computational detection of dilated Virchow-Robin Spaces. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic tool, capable of preprocessing the magnetic resonance images, extract the most relevant regions of interest and detect dilated Virchow-Robin Spaces. Such a tool may be useful to eliminate human subjectivity, but also to improve the reproducibility of the studies, leading to more relia ble correlations. An application to visualize and count the detected structures was also built, with the aim of helping in a study of the correlation of lacunar strokes, Virchow-Robin Spaces and vascular dementia. (More)

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Pereira, S. ; Mariz, J. ; Sousa, N. ; Correia, J. and Silva, C. (2015). A Fully Automatic Tool for Counting Virchow-Robin Spaces in Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Lacunar Stroke Study. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioimaging (BIOSTEC 2015) - BIOIMAGING; ISBN 978-989-758-072-7; ISSN 2184-4305, SciTePress, pages 69-75. DOI: 10.5220/0005199700690075

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author={Sérgio Pereira and José Mariz and Nuno Sousa and J. H. Correia and Carlos Silva},
title={A Fully Automatic Tool for Counting Virchow-Robin Spaces in Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Lacunar Stroke Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioimaging (BIOSTEC 2015) - BIOIMAGING},
year={2015},
pages={69-75},
publisher={SciTePress},
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doi={10.5220/0005199700690075},
isbn={978-989-758-072-7},
issn={2184-4305},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioimaging (BIOSTEC 2015) - BIOIMAGING
TI - A Fully Automatic Tool for Counting Virchow-Robin Spaces in Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Lacunar Stroke Study
SN - 978-989-758-072-7
IS - 2184-4305
AU - Pereira, S.
AU - Mariz, J.
AU - Sousa, N.
AU - Correia, J.
AU - Silva, C.
PY - 2015
SP - 69
EP - 75
DO - 10.5220/0005199700690075
PB - SciTePress