2017 Winter Project Week/MeningiomaSegmentation

Key Investigators

Objective	Approach and Plan	Progress and Next Steps
Segment meningiomas in structural MR images. Assess state of brain after surgical removal of meningioma.	Evaluate performance of existing segmentation methods.	Progress Segmented with ANTs and FSL. Learned about Slicer segmentation tools, and segmented semi-automatically. Put in contact with people who have segmented meningiomas. Next steps Continue learning about what has been done in the past. Improve brain-extraction. Continue testing existing segmentation methods. Try Slicer in a Nipype workflow. Apply feature engineering techniques, like manifold learning. Get more data, and potentially train a neural network.

Sometimes, ANTs failed to remove parts of the skull close to the tumor or wrongly removed part of the brain. Other times, ANTs extracted the brain well. Automatic segmentation with ANTs usually could not distinguish the tumor from the rest of the brain. Semi-automatic segmentation with Slicer was relatively successful. Sometimes the segmentation would bleed outside of the tumor into voxels with similar intensities.	We tried FSL's FAST with different numbers of classes. None of these methods could identify the entire tumor mass as one type of tissue in this scan. FAST brain segmentation with 3 classes FAST brain segmentation with 4 classes FAST brain segmentation with 5 classes