Increased differentiation of intracranial white matter lesions by multispectral 3D-tissue segmentation: Preliminary results

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 207-218

  Mohamed, Feroze B ^a   Vinitski, Simon ^b   Gonzalez, Carlos F ^a   Faro, Scott H ^a   Lublin, Fred A ^c   Knobler, Robert ^b   Gutierrez, Juan Esteban ^d  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Facultad de Medicina   (Colombia)

Author keywords

MRI; Tissue segmentation; White matter disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035012588     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(01)00291-0     Document Type: Article

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