Fast, accurate, and automatic extraction of the modified Talairach cortical landmarks from magnetic resonance images

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 970-976

  Hu, Qingmao ^a   Qian, Guoyu ^a   Nowinski, Wieslaw L ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Modified Talairach landmarks; MRI; Segmentation; Talairach transformation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION; AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; LANDMARK LOCATIONS; MODIFIED TALAIRACH LANDMARKS; MORPHOLOGIC OPERATIONS; TALAIRACH TRANSFORMATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MODIFIED TALAIRACH LANDMARK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TALAIRACH TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 16444385181     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20424     Document Type: Article

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