Automatic detection of brain contours in mri data sets

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 153-166

  Brummer, M E ^a   Mersereau, Russell M ^b   Eisner, Robert L ^c   Lewine, Richard R J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BRAIN CONTOURS DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL RENDERING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0027608265     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.232244     Document Type: Article

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