Quantitative Analysis of Bladder Wall Thickness for Magnetic Resonance Cystoscopy

• Published in: IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering Vol. 62; no. 10; pp. 2402 - 2409
• Main Authors: Zhang, Xi, Liu, Yang, Yang, Zengyue, Tian, Qiang, Zhang, Guopeng, Xiao, Dan, Cui, Guangbin, Lu, Hongbing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.10.2015; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: 3D bladder template; Aged; Bladder; bladder cancer; bladder wall segmentation; bladder wall thickness; Cancer; Cystoscopy - methods; Excretory system; Filling; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Laplace equations; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Pipelines; Shape; shape mapping; T2-weighted MRI; Three-dimensional displays; Urinary Bladder - anatomy & histology; Urinary Bladder - pathology; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - pathology; bladder wall segmentation; bladder wall thickness (BWT); T2-weighted magnetic resonance image (MRI); 3-D bladder template; Bladder cancer; shape mapping

Objective: To find an effective way for quantitative evaluation on wall thickness variation of human bladder with/without bladder tumor, a novel pipeline of thickness measurement and analysis for magnetic resonance (MR) cystography is proposed. Methods: After the acquisition of volumetric bladder im...