Abstract
Three-dimensional (3D) visualization of the brain tumors reconstructed from the two-dimensional (2D) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences plays an important role in volumetric calculations. The reconstructions are usually executed using the fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequences, where the whole tumors appear brighter than the healthy surrounding tissues. Without any processing; however, reconstruction results might be inconclusive; therefore, we propose a mathematical m-parametric Nakagami imaging for highlighting the lesions. The raw 2D FLAIR MRI images are taken from BraTS 2012 dataset and the highlighted images are generated by the Nakagami imaging. The information on the MRI slices is compiled in three-layered Nakagami images for better visualization of the high-grade and low-grade glioma in 3D space. By the flexible m-parametric design, on the other hand, the reconstructed images might easily be adjusted according to the GT images for precise representation.
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The work and the contribution were also supported by the SPEV project, University of Hradec Kralove, Faculty of Informatics and Management, Czech Republic (ID: 2102–2023), “Smart Solutions in Ubiquitous Computing Environments”. We are also grateful for the support of student Michal Dobrovolny in consultations regarding application aspects.
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Alpar, O., Krejcar, O. (2023). Three-Dimensional Representation and Visualization of High-Grade and Low-Grade Glioma by Nakagami Imaging. In: Rojas, I., Valenzuela, O., Rojas Ruiz, F., Herrera, L.J., Ortuño, F. (eds) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering. IWBBIO 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13919. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34953-9_11
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