This paper describes a segment-based asymmetry feature detection approach for three-dimensional positron emission tomography (PET) brain images to automatically extract pathological lesions. The method consists of three stages: preprocessing, segmentation, and asymmetry detection. The method was tested on simulation and clinical data sets and a per-pixel asymmetry feature detection is experimentally compared with our per-segment approach and the per-segment method is shown to produce fewer false positives and better demarcation in the PET data examples presented.
Pathological lesion detection in 3D dynamic PET images using asymmetry
2003-01-01
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Pathological Lesion Detection in 3D Dynamic PET Images Using Asymmetry
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