Model-Based 3-D Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in Magnetic Resonance Brain Images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 442-453

  Kamber, Micheline ^a   Shinghal, Rajjan ^b   Collins, D Louis ^c   Francis, Gordon S ^d   Evans, Alan C ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c Inst de Rech Contre le Cancer IRCC   (France)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ERRORS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BRAIN TISSUE PROBABILITY MODEL; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE BRAIN IMAGES; MODEL-BASED THREE DIMENSIONAL SEGMENTATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS LESION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0029377853     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.414608     Document Type: Article

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