@misc{10481/36991,
year = {2015},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/36991},
abstract = {Intensity normalization is an important pre-processing step in the study and analysis of DaTSCAN SPECT imaging. As most automatic supervised image segmentation and classification methods base their assumptions regarding the intensity distributions on a standardized intensity range, intensity normalization takes on a very significant role. In this work, a comparison between different novel intensity normalization methods is presented. These proposed methodologies are based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) image filtering and mean-squared error (MSE) optimization. The GMM-based image filtering method is achieved according to a probability threshold that removes the clusters whose likelihood are negligible in the non-specific regions. The MSE optimization method consists of a linear transformation that is obtained by minimizing the MSE in the non-specific region between the intensity normalized image and the template. The proposed intensity normalization methods are compared to: i) a standard approach based on the specific-to-non-specific binding ratio that is widely used, and ii) a linear approach based on the α-stable distribution. This comparison is performed on a DaTSCAN image database comprising analysis and classification stages for the development of a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system for Parkinsonian syndrome (PS) detection. In addition, these proposed methods correct spatially varying artifacts that modulate the intensity of the images. Finally, using the leave-one-out cross-validation technique over these two approaches, the system achieves results up to a 92.91% of accuracy, 94.64% of sensitivity and 92.65 % of specificity, outperforming previous approaches based on a standard and a linear approach, which are used as a reference. The use of advanced intensity normalization techniques, such as the GMM-based image filtering and the MSE optimization improves the diagnosis of PS.},
organization = {This work was partly supported by the MICINN under the TEC2012-34306 project and the Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa (Junta de Andalucía, Spain) under the Excellence Project P11-TIC-7103. This work has also been supported by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship from the 7th Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF (Project: 624453 ALPHA-BRAIN-IMAGING) and ERASMUS MUNDUS AL-IDRISI I.},
publisher = {Public Library of Science (Plos)},
keywords = {Imaging techniques},
keywords = {Neostriatum},
keywords = {Single photon emissions computed tomography},
keywords = {Neuroimaging},
keywords = {Optimization},
keywords = {Parkinson disease},
keywords = {Principal component analysis},
keywords = {Image analysis},
title = {Comparison between Different Intensity Normalization Methods in 123I-Ioflupane Imaging for the Automatic Detection of Parkinsonism},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0130274},
author = {Brahim, A. and Ramírez Pérez De Inestrosa, Javier and Gorriz Sáez, Juan Manuel and Khedher, Laila and Salas-González, Diego},
}