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Novel User-Friendly Application for MRI Segmentation of Brain Resection following Epilepsy Surgery

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DIAGNOSTICS
卷 12, 期 4, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12041017

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brain resection; epilepsy surgery; MRI; region growing; image segmentation

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  1. Boston Children's Hospital

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Accurate delineation of resected brain cavities on magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is crucial for neuroimaging/neurophysiology studies in epilepsy surgery. This study proposes and validates a semiautomated MRI segmentation pipeline that generates accurate models of resection and anatomical labels. The pipeline includes a graphical user interface (GUI) for user-friendly usage. Results show that the pipeline achieves high accuracy and robustness with minimal user interaction.
Delineation of resected brain cavities on magnetic resonance images (MRIs) of epilepsy surgery patients is essential for neuroimaging/neurophysiology studies investigating biomarkers of the epileptogenic zone. The gold standard to delineate the resection on MRI remains manual slice-by-slice tracing by experts. Here, we proposed and validated a semiautomated MRI segmentation pipeline, generating an accurate model of the resection and its anatomical labeling, and developed a graphical user interface (GUI) for user-friendly usage. We retrieved pre- and postoperative MRIs from 35 patients who had focal epilepsy surgery, implemented a region-growing algorithm to delineate the resection on postoperative MRIs and tested its performance while varying different tuning parameters. Similarity between our output and hand-drawn gold standards was evaluated via dice similarity coefficient (DSC; range: 0-1). Additionally, the best segmentation pipeline was trained to provide an automated anatomical report of the resection (based on presurgical brain atlas). We found that the best-performing set of parameters presented DSC of 0.83 (0.72-0.85), high robustness to seed-selection variability and anatomical accuracy of 90% to the clinical postoperative MRI report. We presented a novel user-friendly open-source GUI that implements a semiautomated segmentation pipeline specifically optimized to generate resection models and their anatomical reports from epilepsy surgery patients, while minimizing user interaction.

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