Segmentation of the skull in MRI volumes using deformable model and taking the partial volume effect into account

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 219-233

  Rifai, Hilmi ^a   Bloch, Isabelle ^b   Hutchinson, Seth ^a,b   Wiart, Joe ^c   Garnero, Line ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c ORANGE LABS   (France)

^d PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

3D deformable model; Level set method; MRI data; Partial volume estimation; Segmentation of the skull; Topological changes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL;

EID: 0034265845     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(00)00016-5     Document Type: Article

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