Skull-stripping magnetic resonance brain images using a model-based level set

NeuroImage

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-92

  Zhuang, Audrey H ^a   Valentino, Daniel J ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SKULL;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SKULL;

EID: 33748654013     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.03.019     Document Type: Article

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