Unsupervised connectivity-based thresholding segmentation of midsagittal brain MR images

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 309-338

  Lee, Chulhee ^a,d,e   Huh, Shin ^a   Ketter, Terence A ^b,f,g   Unser, Michael ^c,e  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Institute of Mental Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Magnetic resonance image (MRI); Path connection algorithm; Segmentation; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONNECTIVITY BASED THRESHOLD ALGORITHM; PATH CONNECTION ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSENCEPHALON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032071267     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4825(98)00013-4     Document Type: Article

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