The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of unsupervised machine learning technique in differentiating non-enhancing tumor(NET) from surrounding vasogenic edema (VE) in high-grade glioma patients using T1-perfusion MRI parameters. Two unsupervised machine learning techniques, k-means clustering and Gaussian mixture model (GMM) were optimized with respect to their hyper-parameters for differentiating NET from VE and the results were compared with previously published results obtained using a supervised classifier Support Vector Machine (SVM). The results showed that SVM classifier was slightly superior to GMM and K-means clustering in differentiating NET from VE.
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