Title
MRI-Based Thickness Analysis of Bladder Cancer: A Pilot Study.
Abstract
To find an effective way to quantitatively analyze the thickness variation of human bladder wall under different states, in this paper, we proposed a novel pipeline for thickness measurement, analysis, and mapping of bladder wall based on T2-weighted MRI images. The pipeline includes major steps of data acquisition, automatic segmentation of bladder wall, 3D thickness calculation, thickness normalization, and standardized bladder shape mapping. Based on the proposed pipeline, 20 datasets including 10 patients and 10 volunteers were used to explore the distribution pattern of wall thickness and find the difference between cancerous tissue and normal bladder wall. The results demonstrated the potential of wall thickness as a good indicator of bladder abnormalities, indicating its possible use in lesion detection on the bladder wall.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-13692-9_24
ABDI@MICCAI
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Bladder cancer,T2-weighted MRI,Bladder wall 3D thickness
Conference
8676
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xi Zhang100.34
Yang Liu2323.33
Dan Xiao300.34
Guopeng Zhang4706.14
Qimei Liao510.70
Hongbing Lu632537.37