Estimation of the Total Brain Volume Using Semi-Automatic Segmentation and Stereology of the Newborns’ Brain MRI

Volume 11 No 2 (2013)

Tolga Ertekin, Niyazi Acer, Semra Icer, Afra Yıldırım

Abstract

Brain development begins in the early embryonic period and proceeds through the second decade of postnatal life. However information related to the development of the brain during this period is currently quite limited. The aim of the current study was to compare the total brain (cerebrum, cerebellum and brain stem, without the ventricular system) volumes in newborns using stereological (point-counting) and semi-automatic segmentation methods and Archimedes’ principle.

Keywords

MRI, brain, segmentation, stereology

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