A hybrid approach to the skull stripping problem in MRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1060-1075

  Segonne F ^a,b,d   Dale, A M ^a,b   Busa, E ^b   Glessner, M ^b   Salat, D ^b   Hahn, H K ^c   Fischl, B ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas based segmentation; Brain segmentation; Skull stripping; Template deformation; Watershed transformation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; GEOMETRY; HYBRID COMPUTER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL STRIPPING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 3042588673     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.03.032     Document Type: Article

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