Evaluation of using absolute versus relative base level when analyzing brain activation images using the scale-space primal sketch

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 89-110

  Rosbacke, Mikael ^a   Lindeberg, Tony ^a   Björkman, Eva ^a,b   E Roland, Per ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain activation; Brain mapping; Functional region; Primal sketch; Scale space

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0035384140     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(00)00037-2     Document Type: Article

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