Browsing by Author "Prince, Jerry L."

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    Application of phase-based motion outlier detection to infant dMRI
    (ISMRM, 2020) Elsaid, Nahla M. H.; Zhuo, Jiachen; Prince, Jerry L.; Wu, Yu-Chien; Radhakrishnan, Rupa; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    Detecting and eliminating motion-corrupted slices is crucial in diffusion MRI (dMRI), and particularly essential in imaging neonates. Conventional magnitude-based outlier rejection methods are intensity-based and can usually detect and correct intra-volume movement but can miss outliers in cases of small continuous motions. Phase-based methods can be used to detect motion independently, regardless of the slice-to-volume location. The phase-based method is reasonably accurate and computationally fast, and may be better suited for real-time detection of motion in dMRI. Combining magnitude and phase methods could produce the best results. Here, we evaluate the phase-based method versus the magnitude-based method in neonatal data.
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    CT and MRI fusion for postimplant prostate brachytherapy evaluation
    (IEEE, 2016-04) Dehghan, Ehsan; Le, Yi; Lee, Junghoon; Song, Danny; Prince, Jerry L.; Fichtinger, Gabor; Department of Radiation Oncology, IU School of Medicine
    Postoperative evaluation of prostate brachytherapy is typically performed using CT, which does not have sufficient soft tissue contrast for accurate anatomy delineation. MR-CT fusion enables more accurate localization of both anatomy and implanted radioactive seeds, and hence, improves the accuracy of postoperative dosimetry. We propose a method for automatic registration of MR and CT images without a need for manual initialization. Our registration method employs a point-to-volume registration scheme during which localized seeds in the CT images, produced by commercial treatment planning systems as part of the standard of care, are rigidly registered to preprocessed MRI images. We tested our algorithm on ten patient data sets and achieved an overall registration error of 1.6 ± 0.8 mm with a running time of less than 20s. With high registration accuracy and computational speed, and no need for manual intervention, our method has the potential to be employed in clinical applications.
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    Phase Image Texture Analysis for Motion Detection in Diffusion MRI (PITA-MDD)
    (Elsevier, 2019-10) Elsaid, Nahla M. H.; Prince, Jerry L.; Roys, Steven; Gullapalli, Rao P.; Zhuo, Jiachen; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    Purpose Pronounced spin phase artifacts appear in diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with only minor subject motion. While DWI data corruption is often identified as signal drop out in diffusion-weighted (DW) magnitude images, DW phase images may have higher sensitivity for detecting subtle subject motion. Methods This article describes a novel method to return a metric of subject motion, computed using an image texture analysis of the DW phase image. This Phase Image Texture Analysis for Motion Detection in dMRI (PITA-MDD) method is computationally fast and reliably detects subject motion from diffusion-weighted images. A threshold of the motion metric was identified to remove motion-corrupted slices, and the effect of removing corrupted slices was assessed on the reconstructed FA maps and fiber tracts. Results Using a motion-metric threshold to remove the motion-corrupted slices results in superior fiber tracts and fractional anisotropy maps. When further compared to a state-of-the-art magnitude-based motion correction method, PITA-MDD was able to detect comparable corrupted slices in a more computationally efficient manner. Conclusion In this study, we evaluated the use of DW phase images to detect motion corruption. The proposed method can be a robust and fast alternative for automatic motion detection in the brain with multiple applications to inform prospective motion correction or as real-time feedback for data quality control during scanning, as well as after data is already acquired.