Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2010

DOI

10.1117/12.844035

Publication Title

Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7624

Volume

7624

Pages

762425 (1-8)

Conference Name

Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, February 16-18, 2010, San Diego, California

Abstract

A machine learning technique is presented for assessing brain tumor progression by exploring six patients' complete MRI records scanned during their visits in the past two years. There are ten MRI series, including diffusion tensor image (DTI), for each visit. After registering all series to the corresponding DTI scan at the first visit, annotated normal and tumor regions were overlaid. Intensity value of each pixel inside the annotated regions were then extracted across all of the ten MRI series to compose a 10 dimensional vector. Each feature vector falls into one of three categories:normal, tumor, and normal but progressed to tumor at a later time. In this preliminary study, we focused on the trend of brain tumor progression during three consecutive visits, i.e., visit A, B, and C. A machine learning algorithm was trained using the data containing information from visit A to visit B, and the trained model was used to predict tumor progression from visit A to visit C. Preliminary results showed that prediction for brain tumor progression is feasible. An average of 80.9% pixel-wise accuracy was achieved for tumor progression prediction at visit C.

Rights

Copyright 2010 Society of Photo‑Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

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Original Publication Citation

Shen, Y., Banerjee, D., Li, J., Chandler, A., Shen, Y., McKenzie, F., & Wang, J. (2010). Prediction of brain tumor progression using a machine learning technique. In N. Karssemeijer & R.M. Summers (Eds.), Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7624 (762425). SPIE of Bellingham, WA. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844035

ORCID

0000-0003-0091-6986 (Li), 0000-0002-0160-5605 (McKenzie)

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