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SUBMITTER: Ballerini L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5794857 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ballerini Lucia L Lovreglio Ruggiero R Valdés Hernández Maria Del C MDC Ramirez Joel J MacIntosh Bradley J BJ Black Sandra E SE Wardlaw Joanna M JM
Scientific reports 20180201 1
Perivascular Spaces (PVS) are a feature of Small Vessel Disease (SVD), and are an important part of the brain's circulation and glymphatic drainage system. Quantitative analysis of PVS on Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) is important for understanding their relationship with neurological diseases. In this work, we propose a segmentation technique based on the 3D Frangi filtering for extraction of PVS from MRI. We used ordered logit models and visual rating scales as alternative ground truth for F ...[more]