Analysis of the hemispheric asymmetry using fractal dimension of a skeletonized cerebral surface

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1494-1498

  Lee, Jong Min ^a   Yoon, Uicheul ^a   Kim, Jae Jin ^b   Kim, In Young ^a   Lee, Dong Soo ^c   Kwon, Jun Soo ^c   Kim, Sun I ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension (FD); Fuzzy clustering; Hemispheric asymmetry; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Skeletonization

Indexed keywords

FUZZY CONTROL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROLOGY;

CEREBRAL SURFACE; GRAY MATTERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREA; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; SKELETON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 3242668037     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.831543     Document Type: Article

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