Reproducibility of tract segmentation between sessions using an unsupervised modelling-based approach

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 377-385

  Clayden, Jonathan D ^a   Storkey, Amos J ^b   Maniega, Susana Muñoz ^b   Bastin, Mark E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRACT SEGMENTATION; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 60149084849     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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