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Introduction to statistical pattern recognition (2nd ed.)
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Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Mean Shift: A Robust Approach Toward Feature Space Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Information Visualization and Visual Data Mining
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
An Algorithm for Data-Driven Bandwidth Selection
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
X-means: Extending K-means with Efficient Estimation of the Number of Clusters
ICML '00 Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
Uncertainty Visualization in Medical Volume Rendering Using Probabilistic Animation
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
From visual data exploration to visual data mining: a survey
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
A novel kernelized fuzzy C-means algorithm with application in medical image segmentation
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
A quantitative comparison of functional MRI cluster analysis
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Fuzzy cluster analysis of high-field functional MRI data
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Information visualization and its application to medicine
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Exploring presentation methods for tomographic medical image viewing
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Learning Approach to Analyze Tumour Heterogeneity in DCE-MRI Data During Anti-cancer Treatment
AIME '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
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Objective: This paper presents Visual MRI, an innovative tool for the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analysis of tumoral tissues. The main goal of the analysis is to separate each magnetic resonance image in meaningful clusters, highlighting zones which are more probably related with the cancer evolution. Such non-invasive analysis serves to address novel cancer treatments, resulting in a less destabilizing and more effective type of therapy than the chemotherapy-based ones. The advancements brought by Visual MRI are two: first, it is an integration of effective information visualization (IV) techniques into a clustering framework, which separates each MRI image in a set of informative clusters; the second improvement relies in the clustering framework itself, which is derived from a recently re-discovered non-parametric grouping strategy, i.e., the mean shift. Methodology: The proposed methodology merges visualization methods and data mining techniques, providing a computational framework that allows the physician to move effectively from the MRI image to the images displaying the derived parameter space. An unsupervised non-parametric clustering algorithm, derived from the mean shift paradigm, and called MRI-mean shift, is the novel data mining technique proposed here. The main underlying idea of such approach is that the parameter space is regarded as an empirical probability density function to estimate: the possible separate modes and their attraction basins represent separated clusters. The mean shift algorithm needs sensibility threshold values to be set, which could lead to highly different segmentation results. Usually, these values are set by hands. Here, with the MRI-mean shift algorithm, we propose a strategy based on a structured optimality criterion which faces effectively this issue, resulting in a completely unsupervised clustering framework. A linked brushing visualization technique is then used for representing clusters on the parameter space and on the MRI image, where physicians can observe further anatomical details. In order to allow the physician to easily use all the analysis and visualization tools, a visual interface has been designed and implemented, resulting in a computational framework susceptible of evaluation and testing by physicians. Results: Visual MRI has been adopted by physicians in a real clinical research setting. To describe the main features of the system, some examples of usage on real cases are shown, following step by step all the actions scientists can do on an MRI image. To assess the contribution of Visual MRI given to the research setting, a validation of the clustering results in a medical sense has been carried out. Conclusions: From a general point of view, the two main objectives reached in this paper are: (1) merging information visualization and data mining approaches to support clinical research and (2) proposing an effective and fully automated clustering technique. More particularly, a new application for MRI data analysis, named Visual MRI, is proposed, aiming at improving the support of medical researchers in the context of cancer therapy; moreover, a non-parametric technique for cluster analysis, named MRI-mean shift, has been drawn. The results show the effectiveness and the efficacy of the proposed application.