MRI Volumetric Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis: Methodology and Validation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1686-1692

  Li, Lihong ^a   Li, Xiang ^b   Lu, Hongbing ^b   Huang, Wei ^b   Christodoulou, Christopher ^b   Tudorica, Alina ^b   Krupp, Lauren B ^b   Liang, Zhengrong ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov random field; Mixture; MRI; Multispectral; Partial volume effect; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; WHITE NOISE;

SCLEROSIS; WIENER FILTERS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0142094719     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817334     Document Type: Article

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