Improving information quality of MR brain images by fully automatic and robust image analysis methods

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 367-376

  Ekin, Ahmet ^a   Jasinschi, Radu ^a   Van Der Grond, Jeroen ^b   Van Buchem, Mark ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain MR image analysis; Information quality; Keyslice detection; Medical data organization; Mid sagittal plane detection; Multi modal information; Structural analysis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; RESONANCE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BRAIN MR IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION QUALITY; KEYSLICE DETECTION; MEDICAL DATA ORGANIZATION; MID-SAGITTAL PLANE DETECTION; MULTI-MODAL INFORMATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 54249145250     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2749322     Document Type: Article

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