Improved fiber tractography with Bayesian tensor regularization

NeuroImage

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1061-1074

  Lu, Yonggang ^a   Aldroubi, Akram ^b   Gore, John C ^a   Anderson, Adam W ^a,c   Ding, Zhaohua ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes decision rule; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fiber tracking; Regularization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33744943259     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.01.043     Document Type: Article

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