An efficient algorithm for Multiple Sclerosis lesion segmentation from brain MRI

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2809, Issue , 2004, Pages 542-551

  Cárdenes, Rubén ^a   Warfield, Simon K ^b   Macías, Elsa M ^a   Santana, Jose Aurelio ^a   Ruiz Alzola, Juan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATION THEORY; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; SYSTEM THEORY;

CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; DISTANCE INFORMATION; DISTANCE TRANSFORMATION; INTENSITY INFORMATION; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; LESION SEGMENTATIONS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS LESIONS; THREE-STEP APPROACH;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0242308123     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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