Automatic Detection of Pancreatic Islets in Magnetic Resonance Rat Liver Images

Author

Strzelecki, Michal ; Jirak, Daniej ; Hajek, Milan ; Kriz, Jan ; Kim, Hyoungsuk ; Lin, Haiping

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. of Lodz, Lodz

fYear

2007

fDate

23-24 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

254

Lastpage

258

Abstract

This paper presents a novel method for automatic detection of pancreatic islets in magnetic resonance (MR) rats liver images. These islets, transplanted into the liver, are able to produce insulin. Thus this transplantation technique can be used for treatment of type-1 diabetes mellitus. Proposed image processing method enables an evaluation of transplantation process and allows tracing a fate of transplanted islets. Analyzed MR images were acquired using two dimensional acquisition protocol, transplanted islets were labeled with contrast agent to ensure their visualization in liver tissue.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; diseases; feature extraction; automatic pancreatic islet detection; liver tissue; magnetic resonance rat liver images; transplantation technique; two dimensional acquisition protocol; type-1 diabetes mellitus treatment; Diabetes; Image analysis; Image processing; Insulin; Liver; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic resonance; Pancreas; Protocols; Rats;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Convergence, 2007. ISITC 2007. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Joenju

Print_ISBN

0-7695-3045-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3045-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISITC.2007.14

Filename

4410645