Objective and reproducible segmentation and quantification of Tuberous Sclerosis lesions in FLAIR brain MR images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4322, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1509-1518

  Alderliesten, Tanja ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a   Vincken, Koen L ^a   Maintz, J B Antoine ^b   Jansen, Floor E ^c   Van Nieuwenhuizen, Onno ^c   Viergever, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain; FLAIR MRI; Fuzzy connectedness; Lesions; Quantification; Segmentation; Tuberous Sclerosis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY (FLAIR) IMAGES; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0034855106     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.431033     Document Type: Article

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