High-grade glioma diffusive modeling using statistical tissue information and diffusion tensors extracted from atlases |
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Authors: | Roniotis Alexandros Manikis Georgios C Sakkalis Vangelis Zervakis Michalis E Karatzanis Ioannis Marias Kostas |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, GR-700 13 Heraklion, Greece. roniotis@ics.forth.gr |
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Abstract: | Glioma, especially glioblastoma, is a leading cause of brain cancer fatality involving highly invasive and neoplastic growth. Diffusive models of glioma growth use variations of the diffusion-reaction equation in order to simulate the invasive patterns of glioma cells by approximating the spatiotemporal change of glioma cell concentration. The most advanced diffusive models take into consideration the heterogeneous velocity of glioma in gray and white matter, by using two different discrete diffusion coefficients in these areas. Moreover, by using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), they simulate the anisotropic migration of glioma cells, which is facilitated along white fibers, assuming diffusion tensors with different diffusion coefficients along each candidate direction of growth. Our study extends this concept by fully exploiting the proportions of white and gray matter extracted by normal brain atlases, rather than discretizing diffusion coefficients. Moreover, the proportions of white and gray matter, as well as the diffusion tensors, are extracted by the respective atlases; thus, no DTI processing is needed. Finally, we applied this novel glioma growth model on real data and the results indicate that prognostication rates can be improved. |
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