MRI brain extraction with combined expectation maximization and geodesic active contours

Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 107-111

  Huang, Albert ^a   Abugharbieh, Rafeef ^a   Tam, Roger ^a   Traboulsee, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical image processing; Brain extraction; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; BRAIN EXTRACTION; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM); STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC MAPPING (SPM);

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 44449172049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2006.270779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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