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OPTIMIZATION OF KNEE CARTILAGE TEXTURE ANALYSIS FROM QUANTITATIVE MRI T2 MAPS
Veronika Janáčová1, Pavol Szomolanyi1, Siegfried Trattnig1, and Vladimir Juras1
1High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
We showed differences in T2 and GLCM features between lesion and reference cartilage, which can be used as indicators of cartilage damage. We demonstrated effect of GLCM calculation offset and number of T2 mapping parameters on GLCM features values.
Figure 2: GLCM parameters visualization for flattened lesion and reference cartilage ROIs computed from 2-parametric T2 maps with offset 0°.
Figure 1: Preprocessing of ROIs for texture analysis.