Segmentação das áreas isquêmicas no acidente vascular cerebral utilizando imagens de tomografia computadorizada de perfusão / Segmentation of ischemic areas in stroke using perfusion computed tomography images

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2011

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The techniques of digital image processing have been widely applied to medical imaging. One of the benefits brought about by these tools is to provide measurements of parameters that are difficult to estimate and likely to bias the physician. This study aimed to develop semi-automatic software of segmentation of the ischemic areas, core and penumbra in stroke, using techniques of thresholding and segmentation based on regions. The two segmentation algorithms (thresholding and local statistics) were applied to the perfusion maps that are calculated in a separate software, the stroketool-ct (Wittsack, University of Duesseldorf, Germany). This package provides three methods of calculation of maps, from images of perfusion computer tomography, which differ in the mathematical model used. The software developed here serves as a module stroketool-ct, not having access to source code, only the data structures. The statistical algorithm expands from a sample selected by the user, in the ischemic region of interest. The results obtained by the local statistical algorithm were compared by an algorithm of quantification with the gold standard, which is the manual segmentation of ischemic regions performed by the specialist. In spite of the limitations inherent to the technique applied, the results obtained by the local statistic algorithm were satisfactory. The thresholding algorithm uses the physiological perfusion thresholds established in the literature to distinguish the ischemic areas. The reliability of the segmentation obtained by thresholding algorithm resides on the specific method for the calculation of the perfusion maps that were adopted. Moreover, the algorithms provided the display of the segmentation results in less than 5 minutes in a standard computer, a reasonable waiting time for the specialist who can use the feedback to make the decision of whether applying the thrombolytic therapy

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acidente vascular cerebral computed tomography by x-rays image processing computer - assisted ischemia ischemic stroke isquemia processamento de imagem assistida por computador segmentação das áreas isquêmicas segmentation of ischemic areas tomografia computadorizada por raios x

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