Markov random field segmentation of brain MR images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 878-886

  Held, Karsten ^a   Kops, Elena Rota ^a   Krause, Bernd J ^a   Wells, William M ^a   Kikinis, Ron ^a   Müller Gärtner, Hans Wilhelm ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Markov random fields; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS (MRF); SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0031283422     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.650883     Document Type: Article

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