ENHANCED DETECTION IN BRAIN ACTIVATION MAPS USING A MULTIFILTERING APPROACH

被引:53
作者
POLINE, JB
MAZOYER, BM
机构
[1] CEA, DRIPP, SERV HOSP FREDERIC JOLIOT, IMAGERIE NEUROFONCTIONNELLE GRP, F-91406 ORSAY, FRANCE
[2] UNIV PARIS, CHU BICHAT, F-75252 PARIS, FRANCE
关键词
POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; BRAIN ACTIVATION; MULTIFILTERING; DETECTION SENSITIVITY;
D O I
10.1038/jcbfm.1994.79
中图分类号
R5 [内科学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
Current methods for detecting activation foci in positron emission tomography difference images include a low pass filtering step aimed at improving the signal-to-noise ratio. However, we show that detection sensitivity depends both on the activation signal and the filter sizes. Therefore, we propose to improve current detection methods by using a multifiltering strategy that is shown to be more sensitive when various kinds of signals are present in the brain activation images.
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页码:639 / 642
页数:4
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