Unsupervised identification of white matter tracts in a mouse brain using a directional correlation-based region growing (DCRG) algorithm

NeuroImage

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 380-388

  Lin, Chien Yuan ^a   Sun, Shu Wei ^b   Hong, Chung Yi ^a   Chang, Chen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DCRG; Diffusion tensor; Directional correlation based region growing; Directional similarity; Unsupervised identification; White matter tracts

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EX VIVO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VARIANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 26644462858     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.06.009     Document Type: Article

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