A hierarchical neural network algorithm for robust and automatic windowing of MR images

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-119

  Lai, Shang Hong ^a   Fang, Ming ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Display parameter estimation; Hierarchical neural networks; Human perception; Intelligent fusion; Medical image display; Radial basis function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

AUTOMATIC WINDOWING; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION (RBF) NETWORKS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 0034019922     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(00)00041-5     Document Type: Article

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