Reconstruction of the human cerebral cortex from magnetic resonance images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 467-480

  Xu, Chenyang ^a   Pham, Dzung L ^a,b   Rettmann, Maryam E ^c   Yu, Daphne N ^c   Prince, Jerry L ^a,c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

CORTICAL SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION; FUZZY SEGMENTATION; HUMAN CEREBRAL CORTEX; IMAGE INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITIES; IMAGING NOISE; ISOSURFACE; PARTIAL VOLUME AVERAGING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

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

ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0033237790     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.781013     Document Type: Article

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