Automated brain segmentation from single slice, multislice, or whole- volume MR scans using prior knowledge

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 192-201

  Saeed, Nadeem ^a,b   Hajnal, Joseph V ^a   Oatridge, Angela ^b  

^a Hirst Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain, anatomy; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging, technique

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PIXELS;

AUTOMATED BRAIN SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATED PROCEDURES; BRAIN ANATOMY; IMAGES SEGMENTATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, TECHNIQUE; MR-IMAGES; MULTI SLICES; PRIOR-KNOWLEDGE; T1-WEIGHTED; T2 WEIGHTED;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030896681     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199703000-00005     Document Type: Article

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