Automatic measurement of changes in brain volume on consecutive 3D MR images by segmentation propagation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 439-453

  Calmon, Guillaume ^a   Roberts, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Brain; Cerebral ventricles; Deformable model; Image analysis; MRI segmentation propagation; Serial imaging; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODEL; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034011671     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(99)00118-6     Document Type: Article

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