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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

Partial Volume Correction on ASL-MRI and Its Application on Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

Wenji YANG, Wei HUANG, Shanxue CHEN

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Summary :

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method that can provide direct and quantitative measurements of cerebral blood flow (CBF) of scanned patients. ASL can be utilized as an imaging modality to detect Alzheimer's disease (AD), as brain atrophy of AD patients can be revealed by low CBF values in certain brain regions. However, partial volume effects (PVE), which is mainly caused by signal cross-contamination due to voxel heterogeneity and limited spatial resolution of ASL images, often prevents CBF in ASL from being precisely measured. In this study, a novel PVE correction method is proposed based on pixel-wise voxels in ASL images; it can well handle with the existing problems of blurring and loss of brain details in conventional PVE correction methods. Dozens of comparison experiments and statistical analysis also suggest that the proposed method is superior to other PVE correction methods in AD diagnosis based on real patients data.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E97-D No.11 pp.2912-2918
Publication Date
2014/11/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2014EDP7104
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Image Processing and Video Processing

Authors

Wenji YANG
  Yanshan University,Jiangxi Agricultural University
Wei HUANG
  Nanchang University
Shanxue CHEN
  Faculty of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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