Removal of extracerebral tissues in dual-echo magnetic resonance images via linear scale-space features

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 247-256

  Suckling, J ^a,c   Brammer, M J ^c   Lingford Hughes, A ^b   Bullmore, E T ^b,c  

^a Clinical Age Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Psychological Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Linear scale space; Neuroimaging; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MASKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032896236     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)00099-X     Document Type: Article

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