Inflammatory lesions and brain tumors: is it possible to differentiate them based on texture features in magnetic resonance imaging?

[摘要] Background: Neuroimaging strategies are essential to locate, to elucidate the etiology, and to the follow up of brain disease patients. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides good cerebral soft-tissue contrast detection and diagnostic sensitivity. Inflammatory lesions and tumors are common brain diseases that may present a similar pattern of a cerebral ring enhancing lesion on MRI, and non-enhancing core (which may reflect cystic components or necrosis) leading to misdiagnosis. Texture analysis (TA) and machine learning approaches are computer-aided diagnostic tools that can be used to assist radiologists in such decisions.

[学科分类] 药理学

[关键词] Medical imaging;Image processing;Inflammation;Tumor;Magnetic resonance imaging