Statistical morphological skull stripping of adult and infant MRI data

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 342-357

  Chiverton, John ^a   Wells, Kevin ^a   Lewis, Emma ^a   Chen, Chao ^a   Podda, Barbara ^b   Johnson, Declan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image processing; Infant; Mathematical morphology; MRI; Neurological; Skull stripping

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BRAIN MASKS; INFANTS; MRI DATA; SKULL STRIPPING;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SLICE; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASK; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKULL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MORPHOLOGY SKULL STRIPPER; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SKULL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33845966337     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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