Vesna Prchkovska,Paulo Reis Rodrigues,Marc Ramos Bruach,Pablo Villoslada,Álvaro Abella de Bascarán
申请号：
US15291959
公开号：
US20180098700A1
申请日:
2016.10.12
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
The present disclosure discusses systems and methods for identifying biomarkers that can help with the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment choices of patients with neurodegenerative diseases. Diffusion based magnetic resonance imaging can often fail for patients with a neurodegenerative disease because parameters fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity, and radial diffusivity are based on simple models that can fail in the presence of neurodegeneration, such as demyelination. The present disclosure discusses systems and methods that enhance dMRI images and enable tractography to be performed on images of a damaged nervous system. The damaged tracks identified by the present system can be used as a biomarker for the assessment of patients. In some implementations, the biomarkers are converted into clinical scales that can be used to compare patients to one another or over time.
