Brain tumor segmentation and characterization by pattern analysis of multispectral NMR images

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 201-208

  Soltanian Zadeh, Hamid ^a,b,c   Peck, Donald J ^a   Windham, Joe P ^a   Mikkelsen, Tom ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pattern analysis; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031927757     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1492(199806/08)11:4/5<201::AID-NBM508>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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