Automated computation of the Gyrification Index in prefrontal lobes: Methods and comparison with manual implementation

NeuroImage

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1560-1566

  Moorhead, T William J ^a   Harris, Jonathan M ^a   Stanfield, Andrew C ^a   Job, Dominic E ^a   Best, Jonathan J K ^a   Johnstone, Eve C ^a   Lawrie, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated Gyrification Index; Fuzzy inference processing; Prefrontal lobes; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN CORTEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE REPLICATION; HAND MOVEMENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPEAT PROCEDURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

FRONTAL LOBE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 33745459703     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.02.025     Document Type: Article

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