An Online Platform for the Automatic Reporting of Multi-parametric Tissue Signatures: A Case Study in Glioblastoma

Glioblastomas are infiltrative and deeply invasive neoplasms characterized by high vascular proliferation and diffuse margins. As a consequence, this lesion presents a high degree of heterogeneity that requires being studied through a multiparametric combination of several imaging sequences. Nowadays few systems are available to perform a relevant multiparametric analysis of this tumour. In this work, we present the study of GBM by means of http://mtsimaging. com, an online platform for the automatic reporting of multiparametric tissue signatures. The platform implements two full automated GBM pipelines: (1) the anatomical pipeline, which involves MRI preprocessing and tumour segmentation; and (2) the hemodynamic MTS pipeline, which adds the quantification of perfusion parameters and a nosologic segmentation map of the vascular habitats of the GBM. A radiologic report summarizes the findings of both analysis and provides volumetric and perfusion statistics of each tissue and habitat of the tumour.