Abstractive representation and exploration of hierarchically clustered diffusion tensor fiber tracts

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1071-1078

  Chen, Weri ^a   Zhang, Song ^b   Correia, Stephfan ^c   Ebert, David S ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBERS; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VISUALIZATION;

CLUSTERING METHODS; CLUSTERING RESULTS; FIBROUS STRUCTURES; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GEOMETRIC COMPLEXITY; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; HIGH-LEVEL STRUCTURE; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

TENSORS;

EID: 53149107880     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01244.x     Document Type: Article

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