background access to appropriate images of fetal brain can greatly assist to diagnose of probable abnormalities. the aim of this study was to compare the suitability of t2-true fast imaging with steady state free precession (t2-trufi), and t2-half-fourier acquisition single-shot turbo spin-echo (t2- haste( magnetic resonance imaging (mri) to extract the fetal brain using the level set algorithm...

Background Access to appropriate images of fetal brain can greatly assist to diagnose of probable abnormalities. The aim of this study was to compare the suitability of T2-True Fast Imaging with Steady State Free Precession (T2-TRUFI), and T2-Half-Fourier Acquisition Single-Shot Turbo Spin-Echo (T2- HASTE( magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to extract the fetal brain using the level set algorithm...

Fetal MRI is an essential tool for analyzing morphological changes of fetal brain structure. The automated methods developed for adult brain extraction are unsuitable for fetal brain extraction because of the differences in tissue types and tissue properties between adult and fetal brain. However, only few automated fetal brain segmentation methods are available. In this paper we propose a full...

Abstract. Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a rapidly growing field of research for its potential to study brain development in utero. However, in contrast to adult studies automatic brain extraction and orientation is not yet solved, but remains challenging in wide field of view raw fetal MRI volumes. This has limited research to small scale studies. This paper presents an automatic fe...

Sonography, Maternal Serum Screening, amniocentesis, and sampling are among the techniques utilized to examine a developing fetus and diagnose fetal abnormalities in the uterus. Despite the fact that Sonography is the main technique used for imaging and monitoring, the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to evaluate the fetus is growing. Moreover, MRI is used for further examinations in cas...

Most fetal brain MRI reconstruction algorithms rely only on brain tissue-relevant voxels of low-resolution (LR) images to enhance the quality of inter-slice motion correction and image reconstruction. Consequently the fetal brain needs to be localized and extracted as a first step, which is usually a laborious and time consuming manual or semi-automatic task. We have proposed in this work to us...

background: methamphetamine (ma) is a potent psychomotor stimulant with high abuse and addictive potential. ma is a neurotoxic drug which is widely abused by females of childbearing age, raising serious public health concerns in terms of exposure of the fetus to the drug. neurotoxic effects of ma on adult are well known, such as dopaminergic nerve terminal degeneration and cell death in regions...

alcohol directly affects astroglial cell function, including inflammation-related activity.  and it also affects microglial cell development and function in specific ways that interfere with microglial interactions with the immune system and with neurons. neuroinflammatory processes might be involved in alcohol-induced brain damage. alcohol use, misuse and getting used to it causes different ki...

in this paper, we propose a technique of artificial intelligence called adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (anfis) for canceling maternal electrocardiogram (mecg) in fetal electrocardiogram extraction (fecg).this technique is used to estimate the mecg present in the abdominal signal of a pregnant woman. the fecg is then extracted by subtracting the estimated mecg from the abdominal signal. p...