The MIDAS Journal logo

The MIDAS Journal

Home

An Automatic Segmentation of T2-FLAIR Multiple Sclerosis Lesions

Souplet, Jean-Christophe, Lebrun, Christine, Ayache, Nicholas, Malandain, Gregoire
INRIA
The MIDAS Journal logo

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/1451
New: Prefer using the following doi: https://doi.org/10.54294/6eyg0w
Published in The MIDAS Journal - MICCAI 2008 Workshop: MS Lesion Segmentation.
Submitted by Jean-christophe Souplet on 2008-07-15T13:51:28Z.

Multiple sclerosis diagnosis and patient follow-up can be helped by an evaluation of the lesion load in MRI sequences. A lot of automatic methods to segment these lesions are available in the literature. The MICCAI workshop Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesion segmentation Challenge 08 allows to test and compare these algorithms. This paper presents a method designed to detect hyperintense signal area on T2-FLAIR sequence and its results on the Challenge test data. The proposed algorithm uses only three conventional MRI sequences: T1, T2 and T2-FLAIR. First, images are cropped, spatially unbiased and skull-stripped. A segmentation of the brain into its different compartments is performed on the T1 and the T2 sequences. From these segmentations, a threshold for the T2-FLAIR sequence is automatically computed. Then postprocessing operations select the most plausible lesions in the obtained hyperintense signals. Global result on the test data (80/100) is close to the inter-expert variability (90/100).