Using kinetic parameters analysis of dynamic FDOPA-PET for brain tissues classification

Hong Dun Lin*, Kang Ping Lin, Being Tau Chung, Chin Lung Yu, Rong Fa Wang, Liang Chih Wu, Ren Shyan Liu

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Abstract

In clinically, structural image based brain tissue segmentation as a preprocess plays an important and essential role on a number of image preprocessing, such as image visualization, object recognition, image registration, and so forth. However, when we need to classify the tissues according to their physiological functions, those strategies are not satisfactory. In this study, we incorporated both tissue time-activity curves (TACs) and derived "kinetic parametric curves (KPCs)" information to segment brain tissues, such as striatum, gray and white matters, in dynamic FDOPA-PET studies. Four common clustering techniques, K-mean (KM), Fuzzy C-mean (FCM), Isodata (ISO), Markov Random Fields (MRF), and our method were compared to evaluate its precision. The results show 40% and 27% less mean errors in mean difference for KPCs and TACs, respectively, than other methods. Combined KPCs and TACs based clustering method provide the ability to define brain structure effectively.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)436-443
Number of pages8
JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume4683
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002
EventMedical Imaging 2002: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: 24 Feb 200226 Feb 2002

Keywords

  • Kinetic parametric
  • PET
  • Segmentation

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