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S. Van Huffel

Fusingin vivoandex vivoNMR sources of information for brain tumor classification

In this study we classify short echo-time brain magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) data by applying a model-based canonical correlation analyses algorithm and by using, as prior knowledge, multimodal sources of information coming from high-resolution magic angle spinning (HR-MAS), MRSI and magnetic resonance imaging. The potential and limitations of fusing in vivo and ex vivo nuclear magnetic resonance sources to detect brain tumors is investigated. We present various modalities for multimodal data fusion, study the effect and the impact of using multimodal information for classifying MRSI brain glial tumors data and analyze which parameters influence the classification results…

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Incorporating in vivo and ex vivo NMR sources of information for modeling robust brain tumor classifiers

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential and limitations of using multimodal sources of information coming from in vivo NMR and ex vivo NMR data for detecting brain tumors. Supervised pattern recognition methods, whose performance directly depends on the prior available observations used in building them, are proposed. We show that high resolution magic angle spinning (HR-MAS) data act as complementary information for classifying magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) data. In particularly, when considering rare brain tumors, since it is unlikely to acquire sufficient cases to define their metabolite profiles using only in vivo NMR information, HR-MAS can support t…

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Combining HR-MAS and In Vivo MRI and MRSI Information for Robust Brain Tumor Recognition

In this study we propose to classify short echotime brain MRSI data by using multimodal information coming from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) and high resolution magic angle spinning (HR-MAS), and to develop an advanced pattern recognition method that could help clinicians in diagnosing brain tumors. We study the impact of using HR-MAS information in combination with in vivo information for classifying brain tumors and we investigate which parameters influence our classification results.

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Ex vivo high resolution magic angle spinning metabolic profiles describe intratumoral histopathological tissue properties in adult human gliomas.

In gliomas one can observe distinct histopathological tissue properties, such as viable tumor cells, necrotic tissue or regions where the tumor infiltrates normal brain. A first screening between the different intratumoral histopathological tissue properties would greatly assist in correctly diagnosing and prognosing gliomas. The potential of ex vivo high resolution magic angle spinning spectroscopy in characterizing these properties is analyzed and the biochemical differences between necrosis, high cellularity and border tumor regions in adult human gliomas are investigated. Statistical studies applied on sets of metabolite concentrations and metabolite ratios extracted from 52 high resolu…

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Non-negative blind source separation techniques for tumor tissue typing using HR-MAS signals.

Given High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning (HR-MAS) signals from several glioblastoma tumor subjects, the goal is to differentiate between tumor tissue types by separating the different sources that contribute to the profile of each spectrum. Blind source separation techniques are applied for obtaining characteristic profiles for necrosis, high cellular tumor and border tumor tissue, and providing the contribution (abundance) of each tumor tissue to the profile of the spectra. The problem is formulated as a non-negative source separation problem. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods and we analyze to which extent the dimension of the input space could influence the perfor…

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Quantification and classification of high-resolution magic angle spinning data for brain tumor diagnosis.

The goal of this work is to propose a complete protocol (preprocessing, processing and classification) for classifying brain tumors with proton high-resolution magic-angle spinning ((1)H HR-MAS) data. The different steps of the procedure are detailed and discussed. Feature extraction techniques such as peak integration, including also the automated quantitation method AQSES, were combined with linear (LDA) and non-linear (least-squares support vector machine or LS-SVM) classifiers. Classification accuracy was assessed using a stratified random sampling scheme. The results suggest that LS-SVM performs better than LDA while AQSES performs better than the standard peak integration feature extr…

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