A non-linear regression method for CT brain perfusion analysis

E. Bennink; J. Oosterbroek; M. A. Viergever; B. K. Velthuis M.D.; H. W.A. M. de Jong

doi:10.1117/12.2081993

17 March 2015 A non-linear regression method for CT brain perfusion analysis

E. Bennink, J. Oosterbroek, M. A. Viergever, B. K. Velthuis M.D., H. W.A. M. de Jong

Proceedings Volume 9417, Medical Imaging 2015: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 94171Q (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081993
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

CT perfusion (CTP) imaging allows for rapid diagnosis of ischemic stroke. Generation of perfusion maps from CTP data usually involves deconvolution algorithms providing estimates for the impulse response function in the tissue. We propose the use of a fast non-linear regression (NLR) method that we postulate has similar performance to the current academic state-of-art method (bSVD), but that has some important advantages, including the estimation of vascular permeability, improved robustness to tracer-delay, and very few tuning parameters, that are all important in stroke assessment. The aim of this study is to evaluate the fast NLR method against bSVD and a commercial clinical state-of-art method. The three methods were tested against a published digital perfusion phantom earlier used to illustrate the superiority of bSVD. In addition, the NLR and clinical methods were also tested against bSVD on 20 clinical scans. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated for each of the tested methods. All three methods showed high correlation coefficients (>0.9) with the ground truth in the phantom. With respect to the clinical scans, the NLR perfusion maps showed higher correlation with bSVD than the perfusion maps from the clinical method. Furthermore, the perfusion maps showed that the fast NLR estimates are robust to tracer-delay. In conclusion, the proposed fast NLR method provides a simple and flexible way of estimating perfusion parameters from CT perfusion scans, with high correlation coefficients. This suggests that it could be a better alternative to the current clinical and academic state-of-art methods.

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E. Bennink, J. Oosterbroek, M. A. Viergever, B. K. Velthuis M.D., and H. W.A. M. de Jong "A non-linear regression method for CT brain perfusion analysis", Proc. SPIE 9417, Medical Imaging 2015: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 94171Q (17 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081993

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Tissues

Brain

Deconvolution

Computed tomography

Ischemic stroke

Nonlinear filtering

Brain mapping

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