You really need to fire any neurologist who isn't using this within the next month to show you an objective diagnosis of damage to your brain. If you have no diagnosis your doctor can NEVER correlate therapy interventions that work vs. those that don't work, and can't direct the therapists to provide proper exercises. As a result you and your doctor are not helping future stroke survivors.
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Researchers of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the
National Centre for Scientific Research in France (CNRS, in French) have
developed VolBrain (volbrain.upv.es), a new free, online platform able
to automatically, quickly and precisely analyse the images from a
magnetic resonance of the brain.
Thus, VolBrain enables worldwide scientists to obtain key cerebral
information in order to advance in the research on neural pathologies.
In the three months it has been operating, it has processed more than
1500 cases from universities, research centres, clinics and hospitals
from the five continents. Today, more than 30 cases per day are
processed, though the system has the capacity to process up to 500.
VolBrain provides information about the tissue volumes in the
intracranial cavity (ICC) (that is, CSF, GM and WM), as well as some
macroscopic areas such as the cerebral hemispheres, the cerebellum and
the brain stem. It also provides the segmentation of subcortical
structures, which is of major importance in neurology. Thus, it
incorporates a set of IT tools, developed by researchers of the UPV and
the CNRS, able to exhaustively and precisely analyse the cerebral
volumetry.
“VolBrain can measure structures such as the hippocampus or the
tonsils, very important in the development of diseases such as
Alzheimer’s. A symptom of this pathology lies in a lower than average
hippocampus volume. Therefore, since volBrain provides very important
information in order to measure cerebral atrophies, it could help in the
diagnosis of diseases such as Alzheimer’s”, says José Vicente Manjón,
researcher at the ITACA Institute of the Universitat Politècnica de
València.
The benefits of VolBrain include easy use and a quick analysis
capacity, unlike other similar systems existing on the market. “The user
must always send a compressed file from the web. The information
reaches our cluster -which incorporates seven powerful computers- and,
within 10 minutes, the system e-mails a detailed report with the results
of the segmentation and the volumes processed. Similar systems that
currently exist take 24 hours to give this information”, explains
Manjón.
In addition, every case analysed is compared with a database that
includes the volumetry of 50 brains that the researchers of the
Universitat Politècnica de València and the National Centre for
Scientific Research of France manually labelled.
“We use resemblances to label and measure the volumes of a new case.
In addition, if users include the patient's age and sex, the system
allows them to visualize whether the analysed case is within the common
parameters related to these variables or not ", explains José Vicente
Manjón. Finally, VolBrain sends a screen shot of the measurement process
with the report to allow users to visualize the segmentation of the
cerebral structures.
The researchers of the UPV and the CNRS will present VolBrain in the
international conference Human Brain Mapping, the most important
neuroimaging meeting in the world, which will be held next July in
Honolulu. In addition, they have been published in the journal Magnetic
Resonance Imaging.
http://volbrain.upv.es/
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