EP-2137: Development of a modular MRI processing workflow for volumetric analysis of healthy brain tissue

An inherent problem of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based analyses of morphological tissue changes is the absence of a ground truth. A particular issue in cerebral imaging is the lack of consensus regarding the order and manner, in which registration and segmentation algorithms are employed to evaluate volumes and longitudinal changes of different tissue types, e.g., grey and white matter (GM and WM).
Considering shortcomings of a procedure widely applied for global segmentation of the entire brain we developed a modular MRI processing workflow particularly suitable for volumetric analysis of the contralateral hemisphere in brain tumor patients.