Fast, accurate, and reproducible automatic segmentation of the brain in T1-weighted volume MRI data

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-135

  Lemieux, Louis ^a,b   Hagemann, Georg ^a,b,c   Krakow, Karsten ^a,b   Woermann, Friedrich G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; MRI; Segmentation; Validation; Volume

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AUTOMATED MEASUREMENT; AUTOMATED THRESHOLDING; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; VALIDATION; VOLUME;

AUTOMATION;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 0032769863     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199907)42:1<127::AID-MRM17>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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