Case Western Reserve University

Gavin Hanson

Anant Madabhushi

Pallavi Tiwari

Jhimli Mitra

Methods and apparatus quantify mass effect deformation in diagnostic images of patients demonstrating glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). One example apparatus includes an image acquisition circuit that acquires an image of a region of tissue demonstrating GBM pathology, a delineation circuit that segments a tumor region from the image, a pre-processing circuit that generates a pre-processed image by pre-processing the segmented image, a registration circuit that registers the pre-processed image with a template image of a healthy brain, a deformation quantification circuit that computes a set of differences between a position of a brain sub-structure represented in the registered image relative to the position of the brain sub-structure represented in the template image. Embodiments may include a classification circuit that classifies the region of tissue as a long or short-term survivor based, at least in part, on the set of differences.

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Cleveland Heights, OH, United States of America

Gavin Hanson