Estimating the confidence level of white matter connections obtained with MRI tractography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Gigandet, Xavier ^a   Hagmann, Patric ^a,b   Kurant, Maciej ^a   Cammoun, Leila ^a   Meuli, Reto ^b   Thiran, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58049213902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004006     Document Type: Article

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