Ground truth in MS lesion volumetry - A phantom study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 2879, Issue PART 2, 2003, Pages 546-553

  Rexilius, Jan ^a   Hahn, Horst K ^a   Bourquain, Holger ^a   Peitgen, Heinz Otto ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISEASE CONTROL; EXPERT SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROTONS; DIAGNOSIS; GOLD; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DATASETS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS); PROTON DENSITY (PD); VOLUME TRACING; AUTOMATED APPROACH; EMBEDDING STRUCTURE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; THERAPY MONITORING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0344823953     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39903-2_67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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