The challenge of cerebral magnetic resonance imaging in neonates: A new method using mathematical morphology for the segmentation of structures including diffuse excessive high signal intensities.

Thanks to the progress in neonatology, more than 85% of premature newborns survive  (Victora et al., 2016). However, premature birth remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The brain develops rapidly during the third trimester of pregnancy and can be explored precisely by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the prenatal and the postnatal periods (Parazzini et al., 2008; Tilea et al., 2009; Viola et al., 2011). Indeed, automated quantification of the cortical folding in a population of preterms, newborns and infants has been investigated in (Dubois et al., 2016), showing promising results.

Source: Medical Image Analysis - May 17, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Yongchao Xu, Baptiste Morel, Sonia Dahdouh, Élodie Puybareau, Alessio Virzí, Héléne Urien, Thierry Géraud, Catherine Adamsbaum, Isabelle Bloch Source Type: research