Enhancing the convex analysis of mixtures technique for estimating DCE-MRI pharmacokinetic parameters.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
; 2014: 6434-7, 2014.
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ABSTRACT
Dynamic-contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is a useful noninvasive tool for monitoring tumor angiogenesis and assessing therapeutic response. One major problem that prevents an accurate estimation of pharmacokinetic parameters is partial-volume effect (PVE). A multi-tissue compartmental modeling (CM) technique supported by convex analysis of mixtures (CAM) is used to overcome the PVE by clustering pixels and constructing a simplex whose vertices are of a single compartment type. CAM uses the identified pure-volume pixels to estimate the kinetics of the tissues under investigation. This paper reports an enhanced version of CAM-CM to identify pure-volume pixels more accurately. This includes the consideration of the neighborhood effect on each pixel and the use of a barycentric coordinate system to identify more pure-volume pixels and to test those identified by CAM. The enhanced CAM achieved root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.00348 ± 0.000019, lower than the RMSE of 0.05409 ± 0.00496 achieved by CAM.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Meios de Contraste
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Neovascularização Patológica
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
Ano de publicação:
2014
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Article