A SOFTWARE PLATFORM TO ANALYZE MR IMAGES BASED ON 3D FRACTAL DIMENSION - Application in Neurodegenerative Diseases

J. Jiménez, A. M. López, F. J. Esteban, P. Villoslada, J. Navas, J. Ruiz de Miras

2012

Abstract

Previous studies carried out by our group have demonstrated that 3D fractal dimension algorithms detect changes in apparently normal magnetic resonance (MR) images of the brain in patients suffering early stages of Multiple Sclerosis. In addition, 3D fractal dimension has also been demonstrated to be useful for detecting brain abnormalities in other cerebral diseases, as in Alzheimer’s disease and in children born after intrauterine growth restriction. Thus, 3D fractal dimension detection has been proposed as a valuable and powerful diagnostic tool. To our knowledge, no user-friendly software is available to obtain the 3D fractal dimension of volumetric MR images. In this paper, we present an optimized Web platform that allows computing the 3D fractal dimension value for uploaded MR images in an interactive user-friendly way. Moreover, and because the computational cost of the involved algorithms is very high for interactive use, we have focused our efforts on the optimization of the appropriate algorithms using the parallel computing power of current GPUs and multi-core CPUs.

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Jiménez J., M. López A., J. Esteban F., Villoslada P., Navas J. and Ruiz de Miras J. (2012). A SOFTWARE PLATFORM TO ANALYZE MR IMAGES BASED ON 3D FRACTAL DIMENSION - Application in Neurodegenerative Diseases . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: MIAD, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-89-8, pages 554-559. DOI: 10.5220/0003892505540559


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@conference{miad12,
author={J. Jiménez and A. M. López and F. J. Esteban and P. Villoslada and J. Navas and J. Ruiz de Miras},
title={A SOFTWARE PLATFORM TO ANALYZE MR IMAGES BASED ON 3D FRACTAL DIMENSION - Application in Neurodegenerative Diseases},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: MIAD, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={554-559},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003892505540559},
isbn={978-989-8425-89-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: MIAD, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - A SOFTWARE PLATFORM TO ANALYZE MR IMAGES BASED ON 3D FRACTAL DIMENSION - Application in Neurodegenerative Diseases
SN - 978-989-8425-89-8
AU - Jiménez J.
AU - M. López A.
AU - J. Esteban F.
AU - Villoslada P.
AU - Navas J.
AU - Ruiz de Miras J.
PY - 2012
SP - 554
EP - 559
DO - 10.5220/0003892505540559