Title
Cerebrospinal fluid volume analysis for hydrocephalus diagnosis and clinical research.
Abstract
In this paper we analyze volumes of the cerebrospinal fluid spaces for the diagnosis of hydrocephalus, which are served as reference values for future studies. We first present an automatic method to estimate those volumes from a new three-dimensional whole body magnetic resonance imaging sequence. This enables us to statistically analyze the fluid volumes, and to show that the ratio of subarachnoid volume to ventricular one is a proportionality constant for healthy adults (=10.73), while in range [0.63, 4.61] for hydrocephalus patients. This indicates that a robust distinction between pathological and healthy cases can be achieved by using this ratio as an index.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.compmedimag.2013.03.005
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cerebrospinal fluid,Hydrocephalus,Volume assessment,Three-dimensional image analysis,Computer-aided diagnosis
Journal
37
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0895-6111
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alain Lebret121.08
Jérôme Hodel210.36
Alain Rahmouni3194.13
Philippe Decq411.03
Eric Petit55812.73