Application of the extremum stack to neurological MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 371-382

  Simmons, Andrew ^a,b   Arridge, Simon R ^a   Tofts, Paul S ^a,b   Barker, Gareth J ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extremum stack; Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Segmentation; Variable conductance diffusion

Indexed keywords

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

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

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EXTREMUM STACK SCHEME; VARIABLE CONDUCTANCE DIFFUSION METHOD;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032081259     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.712127     Document Type: Article

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