Pattern recognition analysis

Proton MR spectroscopy in clinical routine

“…Lactate, mobile lipids, choline, and NAA levels were furthermore used for malignancy staging (41)(42)(43)(44), and the occurrence of alanine was associated with meningiomas (34). More sophisticated evaluation of spectral data using neuronal networks and automated pattern recognition showed promising results and, although their clinical implication still is limited to a few research centers, will certainly contribute to an increased reproducibility of true differentiation of cerebral tumors in the future (45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51)(52)(53)(54). CSI allows the observation of spectral alterations in heterogeneous parts of space-occupying lesions based on increased resolution and more efficient data acquisition regarding the number of voxels per examination time.…”