Technical note: Three-dimensional segmentation of mr images of the head using probability and connectivity

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 1037-1045

  Cline, Harvey E ^a   Lorensen, William E ^a   Kikinis, Ron ^b   Jolesz, Ferenc ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Magnetic resonance imaging; Techniques; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREORADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0025000563     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199011000-00041     Document Type: Article

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