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Extension: [[Documentation/{{documentation/version}}/Extensions/LesionSpotlight|LesionSpotlight]]<br><br />
Webpage: http://dcm.ffclrp.usp.br/csim/<br><br />
Author: Antonio Carlos da S. Senra Filho, CSIM Laboratory (University of Sao Paulo, Department of Computing and Mathematics)<br><br />
Contact: Antonio Carlos da S. Senra Filho, <email>acsenrafilho@usp.br</email><br><br />
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This module offers a method to increase the contrast of structures confined in a defined regions of the image. This method is specially useful for the hyperintense Multiple Sclerosis lesion segmentation due to the previous increase of signal contrast between the MS lesion and the surounding area (usually denoted as the normal appearing white matter). <br />
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* Use Case 1: Increase signal contrast of abnormal voxels in white matter brain region<br />
**There are some lesion segmentation approaches that relies on the voxel intensity level presented in the lesion signal, where the '''LS Contrast Enhancer''' module can be helpful to increasing the signal contrast between lesions and surrounding brain tissues (mainly normal appearing white matter)<br />
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Image:T2FLAIR_beforeContrast.png|Input T2-FLAIR image with Multiple Sclerosis lesions<br />
Image:T2FLAIR_afterContrast.png|Output image with the hyperintense lesions enhanced in contrast with the surrounding tissues<br />
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Input/Output Parameters:<br />
*Input Volume<br />
*Output Volume<br />
**Output enhanced volume<br />
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Noise Attenuation Parameters:<br />
*Conductance<br />
**The conductance regulates the diffusion intensity in the neighbourhood area. Choose a higher conductance if the input image has strong noise seem in the whole image space.<br />
*Number Of Iterations<br />
**The number of iterations regulates the numerical simulation of the anomalous process over the image. This parameters is also related with the de-noising intensity, however it is more sensible to the noise intensity. Choose the higher number of iterations if the image presents high intensity noise which is not well treated by the conductance parameter<br />
*Q Value<br />
**The anomalous parameter (or q value) is the generalization parameters responsible to give the anomalous process approach on the diffusion equation. See the reference paper[1] to choose the appropriate q value (at moment, only tested in MRI T1 and T2 weighted images)<br />
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Registration Parameters: (based on [https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Modules/BRAINSFit BRAINSFit] module)<br />
*Is brain extracted<br />
**Is the input data (T1 and T2-FLAIR) already brain extracted?<br />
*Percentage Of Samples<br />
**Percentage of voxel used in registration<br />
*Initiation Method<br />
**Initialization method used for the MNI152 registration<br />
*Interpolation<br />
**Choose the interpolation method used to register the standard space to input image space. Options: Linear, NearestNeighbor, B-Spline<br />
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Lesion Enhancement Function Parameters:<br />
*Weighting Enhancement<br />
**Weighting enhancement value, in percentage, that will be used to increase the lesion signal in the image<br />
*Threshold Method<br />
**Choose the threhsold method for the lesion enhancement procedure. Options: MaximumEntropy, Otsu, Moments, Intermodes and IsoData<br />
*Number Of Bins<br />
**Number Of Bins for the histogram calculation<br />
*Flip Object<br />
**Flip object in the image. This inform if the dark part of the histogram that should be enhanced<br />
*Label Map Threshold<br />
**Threshold for the lesion label map<br />
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