A probabilistic framework for the spatio-temporal segmentation of multiple sclerosis lesions in MR images of the brain

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5032 III, Issue , 2003, Pages 1551-1559

  Greenspan, Hayit ^a   Mayer, Arnaldo ^a   Shahar, Allon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Detection; Image sequence modeling; Lesions; Multiple sclerosis; Spatio temporal segmentation; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS);

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0042922569     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.481364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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