Detection of Focal Cortical Dysplasia Lesions in MRI Using Textural Features
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چکیده
Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a frequent cause of medically refractory partial epilepsy. The visual identification of FCD lesions on magnetic resonance images (MRI) is a challenging task in standard radiological analysis. Quantitative image analysis which tries to assist in the diagnosis of FCD lesions is an active field of research. In this work we investigate the potential of different texture features, in order to explore to what extent they are suitable for detecting lesional tissue. As a result we can show first promising results based on segmentation and texture classification.
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