Development and Dissemination of Robust Brain MRI Measurement Tools

强大的脑 MRI 测量工具的开发和传播

• 批准号: 7922625
• 负责人: Dinggang Shen
• 金额: $ 38.49万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-17 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7922625
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Development and Dissemination of Robust Brain MRI Measurement Tools Abstract: This application responds to RFA: PAR-07-249, "Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing". The goal of this project is to develop and widely distribute a software package for robust measurement of brain structure in MR images by using computational neuroanatomy methods. The project will collaborate with the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) to develop the software using the NA-MIC Software Engineering Process, leverage the NA-MIC engineering infrastructure, and integrate this software into the 3D Slicer, a well-architected application environment being developed in NA-MIC. The particular software package will include both a brain image registration and warping algorithm, called HAMMER, and an algorithm for the segmentation of white matter lesions (WMLs), which can arise from a variety of pathologies including vascular pathology and multiple sclerosis. HAMMER received 2006 Best Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society. HAMMER has been successfully applied to many large clinical research studies and clinical trials involving over 5,000 MR brain images and has been downloaded by 318 users from 102 institutions in over 20 countries. The WML segmentation algorithm has been successfully applied to "Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes-Memory in Diabetes" (ACCORD-MIND) sub- study, with data acquired from 4 centers on 650 patients over a period of 8 years. Designing an easy-to-use, robust software package for these two algorithms and incorporating it into the 3D Slicer will benefit a large community of end-users that need access to advanced image analysis methods in various neuroimaging studies. To increase the robustness of the algorithms to the highly variable quality and characteristics of clinical image data, further algorithm development is necessary. To increase ease of use by non-experts in computer analysis methods and integrate this software into the Slicer platform, significant software engineering efforts are planned. Three aims will be investigated. The first aim is to further develop and extend novel image analysis methods aiming at improving the robustness and performance of HAMMER registration and WML segmentation algorithms, so that they can be easily applied to various clinical research studies. The second and third aims are to design separate software modules for these two algorithms, and to incorporate them into the 3D Slicer. These two modules will be designed (1) with consistent cross-platform interactive and scripted interfaces, (2) allowing end-users to interactively explore the suitable parameters for their data, (3) enabling developers to add new functions. The robustness of these two modules will be extensively tested and improved by both software engineering tools and various clinical research data (acquired from different centers). The final software will be freely available in both source code and pre-compiled programs. PUBLIC HEALTH REVELANCE: The goal of this project is to develop and widely distribute a software package for robust measurement of brain structure in MR images by using computational neuroanatomy methods.

描述（由申请人提供）：强大的脑MRI测量工具的开发和传播摘要：本申请响应RFA：PAR-07-249，“与国家生物医学计算中心的合作”。该项目的目标是开发并广泛分发一个软件包，用于通过使用计算神经解剖学方法在MR图像中对大脑结构进行鲁棒测量。该项目将与国家医学图像计算联盟（NA-MIC）合作，使用NA-MIC软件工程流程开发软件，利用NA-MIC工程基础设施，并将该软件集成到NA-MIC正在开发的3D Slicer中，这是一个架构良好的应用环境。该特定软件包将包括称为HAMMER的大脑图像配准和变形算法，以及用于分割白色病变（WML）的算法，这些病变可能源于各种病理，包括血管病理和多发性硬化症。HAMMER获得IEEE信号处理学会2006年最佳论文奖。HAMMER已成功应用于许多大型临床研究和临床试验，涉及5，000多张MR脑图像，并已被来自20多个国家102家机构的318名用户下载。WML分割算法已成功应用于“控制糖尿病心血管风险的行动-糖尿病记忆”（ACCORD-MIND）子研究，数据来自4个中心的650例患者，为期8年。为这两种算法设计一个易于使用、强大的软件包并将其纳入3D Slicer将使需要在各种神经成像研究中使用高级图像分析方法的大量最终用户受益。为了提高算法对临床图像数据的高度可变质量和特征的鲁棒性，需要进一步开发算法。为了提高计算机分析方法的非专家的易用性，并将该软件集成到Slicer平台中，计划进行重大的软件工程工作。将调查三个目标。第一个目标是进一步开发和扩展新的图像分析方法，旨在提高HAMMER配准和WML分割算法的鲁棒性和性能，以便它们可以轻松地应用于各种临床研究。第二个和第三个目标是为这两种算法设计单独的软件模块，并将它们集成到3D Slicer中。这两个模块将设计为（1）具有一致的跨平台交互和脚本界面，（2）允许最终用户交互式地探索其数据的合适参数，（3）使开发人员能够添加新功能。这两个模块的稳健性将通过软件工程工具和各种临床研究数据（从不同中心获得）进行广泛测试和改进。最终的软件将以源代码和预编译程序的形式免费提供。公共卫生部门：该项目的目标是开发并广泛分发一个软件包，用于通过使用计算神经解剖学方法在MR图像中对大脑结构进行鲁棒测量。