Background: Volume estimation of brain is important for many neurological applications. It is necessary in measuring brain growth and changes in brain in normal/abnormal patients. Thus, accurate brain volume measurement is very important. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the method of choice for volume quantification due to excellent levels of image resolution and between-tissue contrast. St...

1.1 組織標本を使用する定量解析が抱える諸問題 組織標本の解析は定性的な所見から始まる.顕微鏡を用いた丁寧な観察によって初めて得られる検体の 大きさや分布,形態などについての詳細な情報は,全ての研究の基礎となるべき重要なものである.しか しながら,定性的なデータだけでは,統計学的な検討が難しく,結果が主観的なものになりやすい.この ため,生理的組織と病的組織の比較など,さらなる研究を行う際には,定量的なデータが必要になる.定 量解析の基本的な命題は,いかにして検体の正確な数を客観的に求めることができるか,ということであ る.組織標本に基づく定量解析は単純に思われるが,正確なデータを得ることは実は容易ではない. 最大の問題は,サンプリングバイアスである(図1).これは,標本抽出の際に母集団を代表していない 検体が選ばれるために生じる偏りのことであり,2次元的な切片を使って定量解析を行...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to test the stereology method using several grid sizes for measuring liver volume and to find which grid provides an accurate estimate of liver volume. MATERIALS AND METHODS Liver volume was measured by volumetry in 41 sets of liver MRI. MRI was performed before and after different weight-reducing regimens. Grids of 3, 4, 5, and 6 cm were used to measu...

Background Volume estimation of brain is important for many neurological applications. It is necessary in measuring brain growth and changes in brain in normal/abnormal patients. Thus, accurate brain volume measurement is very important. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the method of choice for volume quantification due to excellent levels of image resolution and between-tissue contrast. Ste...

background: volume estimation of brain is important for many neurological applications. it is necessary in measuring brain growth and changes in brain in normal/abnormal patients. thus, accurate brain volume measurement is very important. magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is the method of choice for volume quantification due to excellent levels of image resolution and between-tissue contrast. st...

Point count stereology is a useful tool in obtaining volumetric measures of objects in three-dimensional (3D) images when the segmentation of objects is not feasible. Presently, fixed-grid 3D stereology is being used where a 3D parallelepiped grid is randomly placed for sampling the image space in order to generate test points. Although this is a popular technique, the use of a fixed grid intro...