Phenomenological model of diffuse global and regional atrophy using finite-element methods

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1417-1430

  Camara, Oscar ^b   Schweiger, Martin ^b   Scahill, Rachael I ^c   Crum, William R ^b   Sneller, Beatrix I ^b   Schnabel, Julia A ^a,b   Ridgway, Gerard R ^b   Cash, David M ^b   Hill, Derek L G ^a,b   Fox, Nick C ^c  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Atlas; Atrophy simulation; Creation of validation image databases; Dementia; Design of ground truth; Finite element methods; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mesh warping; Modelling; Validation

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; ATLAS; ATROPHY SIMULATION; CREATION OF VALIDATION IMAGE DATABASES; DEMENTIA; MESH WARPING; VALIDATION;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASE CONTROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT MONITORING; TISSUE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33750248208     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.880588     Document Type: Article

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