A scheme for automatically building three-dimensional morphometric anatomical atlases: Application to a skull atlas

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-60

  Subsol, Gérard ^a   Thirion, Jean Philippe ^a   Ayache, Nicholas ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic diagnosis; Computer aided surgery; Crest lines; Digital atlas; Morphometry; Non rigid registration; Skull

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKULL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; SKULL;

EID: 0032008673     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(01)80027-X     Document Type: Article

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