An Object-Based Approach for Detecting Small Brain Lesions: Application to Virchow-Robin Spaces

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 246-255

  Descombes, Xavier ^a   Kruggel, Frithjof ^b   Wollny, Gert ^b   Gertz, Hermann Josef ^c  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Features extraction; Marked point processes; Reversible jump MCMC; Virchow Robin spaces

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOMETRY;

MARKED POINT PROCESSES; REVERSIBLE JUMP MCMC; VIRCHOW ROBIN SPACES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 1342282317     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.823061     Document Type: Article

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