Abstract
ABSTRACTMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used for ischemic stroke lesion detection in mice. A challenge is that lesion segmentation often relies on manual tracing by trained experts, which is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and prone to inter- and intra-rater variability. Here, we present a fully automated ischemic stroke lesion segmentation method for mouse T2-weighted MRI data. As an end-to-end deep learning approach, the automated lesion segmentation requires very little preprocessing and works directly on the raw MRI scans. We randomly split a large dataset of 382 MRI scans into a subset (n = 293) to train the automated lesion segmentation and a subset (n = 89) to evaluate its performance. We compared Dice coefficients and accuracy of lesion volume against manual segmentation, as well as its performance on an independent dataset from an open repository with different imaging characteristics. The automated lesion segmentation produced segmentation masks with a smooth, compact, and realistic appearance that are in high agreement with manual segmentation.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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2 articles.
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