Clinical MRI Based Volumetry: The Cerebral Ventricles (original) (raw)

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Cerebral ventricular volume is an important factor in quantifying various neurological diseases and in neurosurgical therapy monitoring. We describe a method to efficiently segment and visualize the intracerebral fluid spaces based on MRI and to reproducibly quantify their volumes. At present, no system is available for routine clinical use which is (1) fast (less than 10 min for image analysis), (2) flexible (robust for normal and pathological anatomy), and (3) reproducible (less than 5 % relative variation).

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  1. MeVis - Center for Medical Diagnostic Systems and Visualization, Universitaetsallee 29, 28359, Bremen, Germany
    Horst K. Hahn & Heinz-Otto Peitgen
  2. Institut für Magnetresonanz-Diagnostik, ZKH St.-Jürgen-Straße, Bremen, Germany
    Markus G. Lentschig & Burckhard Terwey

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  1. Horst K. Hahn
  2. Markus G. Lentschig
  3. Burckhard Terwey
  4. Heinz-Otto Peitgen

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  1. Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Wiro J. Niessen & Max A. Viergever &

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Hahn, H.K., Lentschig, M.G., Terwey, B., Peitgen, HO. (2001). Clinical MRI Based Volumetry: The Cerebral Ventricles. In: Niessen, W.J., Viergever, M.A. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2001. MICCAI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45468-3\_199

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