Computerized method for automated measurement of thickness of cerebral cortex for 3-D MR images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Arimura, Hidetaka ^a   Yoshiura, Takashi ^a   Kumazawa, Seiji ^a   Koga, Hiroshi ^a   Sakai, Shuji ^a   Mihara, Futoshi ^a   Honda, Hiroshi ^a   Ohki, Masafumi ^a   Toyofuku, Fukai ^a   Higashida, Yoshiharu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Measurement of cerebral cortical thickness; MRI; Segmentation of brain; White matter, and gray matter

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SEPARATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING; MEASUREMENT OF CEREBRAL CORTICAL THICKNESS; SEGMENTATION OF BRAIN; WHITE MATTER, AND GRAY MATTER;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745181206     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.652832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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