Two methods for semi-automated quantification of changes in ventricular volume and their use in Schizophrenia

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1237-1247

  Saeed, Nadeem ^a,b   Puri, Basant K ^b   Oatridge, Angela ^b   Hajnal, Joseph V ^a,b   Young, Ian R ^a,b  

^a Picker Research Group   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contour extraction; Image registration; Image segmentation; Volume quantitation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REFERENCE VALUES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032418409     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)00128-3     Document Type: Article

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