Experimental Results on the Classification of UTE and
McFlash Sequences
Giovanni Motta
Jan 21, 2005
Unupervised Classification
• Voxels are divided into 16 classes with a K-means algorithm
• A class is assigned to each voxel, similar voxels belong to the same class
• Classification is visualized with maps where different colors represent different classes
• At the present, color assignment is random; some color assignments look “better” (more contrasted) then other. Evaluating the results may be hard because of this
Unupervised Classification
• The classifier is trained on a ROI that is manually selected for each image
• The ROI excludes the background• Results are reported for classification of:
– Original voxel vectors V(i,j)– Mean removed voxels V(i,j)- mean(V(i,j))– Unitary voxels V(i,j)/|V(i,j)|– Mean removed, unitary voxels
(V(i,j)- mean(V(i,j))) / | V(i,j)- mean(V(i,j)) |
Sequences
• UTE
• Fat saturation
• 4 echoes
• 20 sequences 256x256 (4) or 320x320 (16)– TE = 0.08, 3.25, 6.42 and 9.59ms (2)– TE = 0.08, 4.53, 8.98 and 13.5ms (11) – TE = 0.08, 5.81, 11.6 and 17.4ms (4)– TE = 0.08, 6.90, 13.8 and 19.6ms (3)
UTE_0001
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0002
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0003
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0004
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0005
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0006
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0007
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0008
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0009
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0010
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0011
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0012
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0013
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0014
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0015
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0016
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0017
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0018
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0019
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
UTE_0020
Original Mean Removed Unitary Mean + Unitary
Sequences
• McFlash
• Non fat saturated
• 9 echoes
• Classification on the original voxels and on the voxels after Mark’s SVD denoising
McFlash (Noisy)
Unitary Mean + Unitary
Original Mean Removed
McFlash (SVD Denoised)
Unitary Mean + Unitary
Original Mean Removed
To Do
• Find a criterion to assign a unique colormap so that results can be easily compared
• Compare with classification based on parametric representation (Ma, Mb, etc..)
• Train on specific ROI (fibrosis, HCC, normal liver)