The fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis causes human alveolar echinococcosis, commonly affecting the liver. However, in ∼1% of cases, systematic spread of the disease involves the brain as well. A patient had a 6-year history of liver and lung alveolar echinococcosis that was considered not suitable for surgery, and treatment with albendazole was introduced. After the appearance of neurolo...

In this paper we propose a new generative model for simultaneous brain parcellation and white matter lesion segmentation from multi-contrast magnetic resonance images. The method combines an existing whole-brain segmentation technique with a novel spatial lesion model based on a convolutional restricted Boltzmann machine. Unlike current state-of-the-art lesion detection techniques based on disc...

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the CNS with severe involvement of the optic nerve and spinal cord. Highly specific serum IgG autoantibodies (NMO-IgG) that react with aquaporin-4 (AQP4), the most abundant CNS water channel protein, are found in patients with NMO. However, in vivo evidence combining the results of AQP4 antibody serum levels and brain pathol...

Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) shows regions of signal abnormalities, named plaques or lesions. The spatial lesion distribution plays a major role for MS diagnosis. In this paper we present a 3D MS-lesion segmentation method based on an adaptive geometric brain model. We model the topological properties of the lesions and brain tissues in order t...

Accurate and consistent multiple sclerosis (MS) brain lesion segmentation and volumetry could be an added value to MS clinicians. In this paper, MSmetrix is presented, an automatic and reliable method, which uses 3D T1-weighted and FLAIR MR images in a probabilistic model to detect white matter lesions as an outlier with respect to the normal brain, while segmenting the brain tissue into grey m...

Neurocysticercosis is a well known central nervous system parasitosis around the world. The tapeworm Taenia solium is responsible for this infection. However, a single brain lesion is rarely reported. The differential diagnosis of neurocysticercosis is very important because of its misdiagnosis with many different brain lesions. We have reported a patient whose neurocysticercosis is appeared as...