Automatic volumetry on MR brain images can support diagnostic decision making

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Heckemann, Rolf A ^a   Hammers, Alexander ^a   Rueckert, Daniel ^a   Aviv, Richard I ^b   Harvey, Christopher J ^c   Hajnal, Joseph V ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COLOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COLOR; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 44949245859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-8-9     Document Type: Article

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