White matter hyperintensity segmentation on T2 FLAIR brain images using supervised segmentation method
Sarah Samson Soh, Tan Tian Swee, Tengku Ahmad Iskandar Tengku Alang, Eko Supriyanto · 2016
White Matter Hyperintensities (WMHs) are suspected to be a direct manifestation of microvascular ischemic injury in the distribution of the penetrating arteriolar vessels on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and usually seen in elderly persons. Further study on this issue is important as it might relate to other diseases. Early detection might be able to prolong brain health in people and prevent the fast progression on neurology illness. Segmentation of image is very useful in medical applications to diagnose any abnormalities in the image. There are three step involved in these process which are preprocessing, segmentation and volume quantification. Segmentation of WMH is done by using W2MHS toolbox and the result is then being compared with LST. The WMHs volume for W2MHS is 90.61.30ml and LST is 78.43ml.