Generalized expectation-maximization segmentation of brain MR images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Devalkeneer, Arnaud A ^a   Robe, Pierre A ^b   Verly, Jacques G ^a   Phillips, Christophe L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automatic brain segmentation; MRF; MRI; Multichannel inputs

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

AUTOMATIC BRAIN SEGMENTATION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD (MRF) CONSTRAINTS; MULTICHANNEL INPUTS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33745141914     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.649523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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