Identifying white-matter fiber bundles in DTI data using an automated proximity-based fiber clustering method

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1044-1053

  Zhang, Song ^a,b   Correia, Stephen ^c,d   Laidlaw, David H ^a,e  

^a IEEE

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Brown Univerity   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster; Clustering; Diffusion tensor imaging; DT MRI; DTI

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING METHODS; DATA SETS; DIFFUSION-TENSOR (DT ); EXPERT EVALUATION; FIBER BUNDLES; GRAY MATTER (GM); INTEGRAL CURVES; LABELING ALGORITHMS; LABELING METHODS; OPTIMAL CLUSTERING; PROXIMITY MEASURE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FIBER OPTICS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LABELING; TENSORS;

FIBERS;

ALGORITHMS; EQUATIONS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABELING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 47649113234     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.52     Document Type: Article

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