Brain volumes characterisation using hierarchical neural networks

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 307-322

  Di Bona, Sergio ^a   Niemann, Heinrich ^b   Pieri, Gabriele ^a   Salvetti, Ovidio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Bayerisches Forschungszentrum fur wissensbasierte Systeme FORWISS   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D density classification; Artificial neural networks; Brain imaging; Hierarchical neural networks

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; TISSUE;

NEURO-FUNCTIONAL REGIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN SIZE; DATA ANALYSIS; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0043071487     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(03)00061-7     Document Type: Article

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