How accurate is brain volumetry?: A methodological evaluation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3216, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 335-342

  Hahn, Horst K ^a   Jolly, Benoît ^a   Lee, Miriam ^a   Krastel, Daniel ^b   Rexilius, Jan ^a   Drexl, Johann ^a   Schlüter, Mathias ^a   Terwey, Burckhard ^b   Peitgen, Heinz Otto ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^b Center for Magnetic Resonance Imaging   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BRAIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATHOLOGY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN VOLUMETRY; GRAY MATTER (GM); WHITE MATTER (WM); ACCURACY AND PRECISION; AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; INHOMOGENEITIES; MODEL-BASED OPC; NONUNIFORMITY CORRECTION; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

NEUROLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 20344378686     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30135-6_41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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