A comparison of methods for the automated calculation of volumes and atrophy rates in the hippocampus

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1655-1671

  Barnes, J ^a   Foster, J ^a   Boyes, R G ^a   Pepple, T ^a   Moore, E K ^a   Schott, J M ^a   Frost, C ^a,b   Scahill, R I ^a   Fox, N C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 41649098815     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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