Abstract #4794
            Automated lesion detection from multimodal brain MRI using Markov random fields and random forest
                      Jhimli Mitra                     1                    , Soumya Ghose                     1                    , 						Pierrick Bourgeat                     1                    , Olivier Salvado                     1                    , 						Stephen Rose                     1                    , Bruce Campbell                     2                    , 						Alan Connelly                     3                    , Susan Palmer                     4                    , 						Leeanne Carey                     4                    , and Jurgen Fripp                     1          
            
            1
           
           The Australian e-Health Research Centre, 
						CSIRO Computational Informatics, CSIRO 
						Preventative-Health Flagship, Herston, QLD, Australia,
           
            2
           
           Department 
						of Medicine and Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, 
						Parkville, VIC, Australia,
           
            3
           
           Department 
						of Radiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, 
						Australia,
           
            4
           
           The Florey Institute of 
						Neuroscience and Mental Health, Parkville, VIC, 
						Australia
          
            
          We present an automated method to delineate chronic 
						ischemic stroke lesions, white-matter hyperintensities 
						and other secondary lesions from multimodal MRI. 
						Accurate delineation of such lesions is crucial in 
						analyzing the structure-function relationships of the 
						brain post-stroke and critical in the management of 
						stroke patients. The method firstly employed a maximum 
						aposteriori-Markov field based segmentation of the 
						probable lesion areas from hyperintense regions of FLAIR 
						images. Then features of these lesion areas from the 
						multimodal MRI were used to train/test a random forest 
						classifier. The performance was evaluated on 36 stroke 
						patients (mean Dice 0.60+/-0.12, volume correlation 
						0.76)
         
				
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