2010 Winter Project Week TBISegmentation
Key Investigators
- Marcel Prastawa, Guido Gerig, University of Utah
- Ron Kikinis, BWH
- UCLA
Objective
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is caused by severe impact to the brain, which may result in skull fracture, lesions, and internal bleeding. Full assessment of these injuries is possible via multi-modality imaging, here T1w, T2, T1-postcontrast, Flair (fluid attenuated inversion recovery), SWI (susceptibility weighted imaging), DTI). Joint analysis of these modalities requires co-registration of these sets which come with different orientations, spatial resolution and head coverage. Segmentation of brain tissue, fluid and pathology requires efficient procedures for multi-modal analysis of images with classification of lesions.
Approach, Plan
We propose an atlas based segmentation method, which makes use of normative data (spatial and intensity) for isolating abnormal regions that are likely due to injury.
Progress
We have a working program written in C++ using ITK. We will wrap it as a Slicer module.
