Topologically Preserving Straightening of Spinal Cord MRI

被引:22
作者
De Leener, Benjamin [1 ]
Mangeat, Gabriel [1 ]
Dupont, Sara [1 ]
Martin, Allan R. [2 ]
Callot, Virginie [3 ,4 ]
Stikov, Nikola [1 ,5 ]
Fehlings, Michael G. [2 ]
Cohen-Adad, Julien [1 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Polytech Montreal, Inst Biomed Engn, NeuroPoly Lab, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[2] Univ Toronto, Dept Surg, Div Neurosurg, Toronto, ON, Canada
[3] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, UMR 7339, CRMBM, Marseille, France
[4] CEMEREM, Hop Timone Pole Imagerie Med, AP HM, Marseille, France
[5] Montreal Heart Inst, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[6] Univ Montreal, CRIUGM, Funct Neuroimaging Unit, Montreal, PQ, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
spinal cord; straightening; deformation field; NURBS; SCT; MR image analysis; CERVICAL CORD; GRAY-MATTER; IN-VIVO; SPATIAL NORMALIZATION; SEGMENTATION; MORPHOMETRY; ATROPHY; BRAIN; WHITE; INVOLVEMENT;
D O I
10.1002/jmri.25622
中图分类号
R8 [特种医学]; R445 [影像诊断学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100207 ; 1009 ;
摘要
Purpose: To propose a robust and accurate method for straightening magnetic resonance (MR) images of the spinal cord, based on spinal cord segmentation, that preserves spinal cord topology and that works for any MRI contrast, in a context of spinal cord template-based analysis. Materials and Methods: The spinal cord curvature was computed using an iterative Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) approximation. Forward and inverse deformation fields for straightening were computed by solving analytically the straightening equations for each image voxel. Computational speed-up was accomplished by solving all voxel equation systems as one single system. Straightening accuracy (mean and maximum distance from straight line), computational time, and robustness to spinal cord length was evaluated using the proposed and the standard straightening method (label-based spline deformation) on 3T T-2- and T-1-weighted images from 57 healthy subjects and 33 patients with spinal cord compression due to degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM). Results: The proposed algorithm was more accurate, more robust, and faster than the standard method (mean distance = 0.80 vs. 0.83 mm, maximum distance = 1.49 vs. 1.78 mm, time = 71 vs. 174 sec for the healthy population and mean distance = 0.65 vs. 0.68 mm, maximum distance = 1.28 vs. 1.55 mm, time = 32 vs. 60 sec for the DCM population). Conclusion: A novel image straightening method that enables template-based analysis of quantitative spinal cord MRI data is introduced. This algorithm works for any MRI contrast and was validated on healthy and patient populations. The presented method is implemented in the Spinal Cord Toolbox, an open-source software for processing spinal cord MRI data.
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页码:1209 / 1219
页数:11
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