Measurement of global brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease with unsupervised segmentation of spin-echo MRI studies

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 260-266

  Brunetti, Arturo ^a   Postiglione, Alfredo ^a   Tedeschi, Enrico ^a   Ciarmiello, Andrea ^b   Quarantelli, Mario ^a   Covelli, Eugenio M ^a   Milan, Graziella ^a   Larobina, Michele ^a   Soricelli, Andrea ^a   Sodano, Antonio ^a   Alfano, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Brain atrophy; Brain segmentation; Cognitive assessment; Magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0034050812     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(200003)11:3<260::AID-JMRI4>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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