A fully automatic and robust brain MRI tissue classification method

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 513-527

  Cocosco, Chris A ^a,b   Zijdenbos, Alex P ^a   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic brain MRI classification; Automatic brain tissue segmentation; Morphological variability insensitivity; Non parametric method; Pruning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STANDARD; STEREOTAXIS; THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0142260969     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(03)00037-9     Document Type: Article

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