Level set modeling and segmentation of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging brain data

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 125-133

  Zhukov, Leonid ^a   Museth, Ken ^a   Breen, David ^a   Barr, Alan H ^a   Whitaker, Ross ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVEL SET MODELING;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TENSORS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0037286207     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1527628     Document Type: Article

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