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Robust Cerebral Blood Flow Map Estimation in Arterial Spin Labeling

Camille Maumet (Auteur à contacter de préférence) 1, Pierre Maurel () 1, Jean-Christophe Ferré 12, Christian Barillot () 1

International Workshop on Multimodal Brain Image Analysis (MBIA), held in conjunction with MICCAI 2012 (2012) 215-224

Résumé : Non-invasive measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow (CBF) is now feasible thanks to the introduction of Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques. To date, the low signal-to-noise ratio of ASL gives us no option but to repeat the acquisition in order to accumulate enough data to get a reliable signal. Perfusion signal is usually extracted by averaging across the repetitions. However, due to its zero breakdown point, the sample mean is very sensitive to outliers. A single outlier can thus have strong detrimental effects on the sample mean estimate. In this paper, we propose to estimate robust ASL CBF maps by means of M-estimators to overcome the deleterious effects of outliers. The behavior of this method is compared to z-score thresholding as recommended in [8]. validation on simulated and real data is provided. Quantitative validation is undertaken by measuring the correlation with the most widespread technique to measure perfusion with MRI: Dynamic Susceptibility weighted Contrast (DSC).

  • 1 :  VISAGES : Vision Action et Gestion d'Informations en Santé (VISAGES)
  • INSERM : U746 – CNRS : UMR6074 – INRIA – Université de Rennes 1
  • 2 :  Service de radiologie et imagerie médicale [Rennes]
  • CHU Rennes – Université de Rennes 1 – Hôpital Pontchaillou
  • Domaine : Sciences du Vivant/Neurosciences
 
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