Assessment of disease severity in a Canine Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Classification of Quantitative MRI

A. Eresen, L. Alic, J. Kornegay, J. X. Ji

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Abstract

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal Xlinked muscle disorder caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene with a consequence of progressive degeneration of skeletal and cardiac muscle. Golden retriever muscular dystrophy (GRMD) is a spontaneous X-linked canine model of DMD with similar effects. Due to high soft-tissue contrast images, MRI is preferred as a non-invasive method to extract information corresponding to biological characteristics. We propose and evaluate non-invasive MRI-based imaging biomarkers to assess the severity of golden retriever muscular dystrophy (GRMD) using 3T and 4.7T MRI data of nine animals. These imaging biomarkers use first order statistics and texture (assessed by wavelets) in quantitative MRI (qMRI). In a leave-one-sampleout cross-validation framework, we use SVM to differentiate between young and old GRMD animals. The preliminary results show good differentiation between young and old animals for different qMRI sequences and based on a different selection of features.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018
PublisherIEEE
Pages648-651
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538636466
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Oct 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 - Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, United States
Duration: 17 Jul 201821 Jul 2018
Conference number: 40
https://embc.embs.org/2018/

Conference

Conference40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018
Abbreviated titleEMBC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu
Period17/07/1821/07/18
Internet address

Keywords

  • GRMD
  • image classification
  • image registration
  • image segmentation
  • MRI biomarkers

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