Automated Ventricle Parcellation and Evan's Ratio Computation in Pre- and Post-Surgical Ventriculomegaly

Yuli Wang, Anqi Feng, Yuan Xue, Lianrui Zuo, Yihao Liu, Ari M. Blitz, Mark G. Luciano, Aaron Carass, Jerry L. Prince

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Abstract

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a brain disorder associated with enlarged ventricles and multiple cognitive and motor symptoms. The degree of ventricular enlargement can be measured using magnetic resonance images (MRIs) and characterized quantitatively using the Evan's ratio (ER). Automatic computation of ER is desired to avoid the extra time and variations associated with manual measurements on MRI. Because shunt surgery is often used to treat NPH, it is necessary that this process be robust to image artifacts caused by the shunt and related implants. In this paper, we propose a 3D regions-of-interest aware (ROI-aware) network for segmenting the ventricles. The method achieves state-of-the-art performance on both pre-surgery MRIs and post-surgery MRIs with artifacts. Based on our segmentation results, we also describe an automated approach to compute ER from these results. Experimental results on multiple datasets demonstrate the potential of the proposed method to assist clinicians in the diagnosis and management of NPH.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2023 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2023
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781665473583
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event20th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2023 - Cartagena, Colombia
Duration: Apr 18 2023Apr 21 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
Volume2023-April
ISSN (Print)1945-7928
ISSN (Electronic)1945-8452

Conference

Conference20th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2023
Country/TerritoryColombia
CityCartagena
Period4/18/234/21/23

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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