Fast and robust parameter estimation for statistical partial volume models in brain MRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 84-97

  Tohka, Jussi ^a   Zijdenbos, Alex ^b   Evans, Alan ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mixel model; Partial volume effect; Robust estimation; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 4344635520     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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