Topological visualization of brain diffusion MRI data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1496-1503

  Schultz, Thomas ^a   Theisel, Holger ^b   Seidel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor; Probabilistic fiber tracking; Tensor topology; Uncertainty visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BRAIN; FUZZY SETS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TOPOLOGY;

DIFFUSION MRI DATA; DIFFUSION TENSOR; HUMAN BRAIN; PROBABILISTIC FIBER TRACKING; TENSOR TOPOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY VISUALIZATION;

VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE TRACT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 35948965225     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70602     Document Type: Article

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