Fully automatic identification of ac and pc landmarks on brain mri using scene analysis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 610-616

  Vérard, Laurent ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Brain mri; Scene analysis; Stereotactic neuroanatomy; Talairach system

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BRAIN; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

STEREOTACTIC NEUROANATOMY; TALAIRACH SYSTEM;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROANATOMY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031240182     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.640751     Document Type: Article

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