Assessment of 3D DCE-MRI of the kidneys using non-rigid image registration and segmentation of voxel time courses

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 171-181

  Zöllner, Frank G ^a,b   Sance, Rosario ^d   Rogelj, Peter ^e   Ledesma Carbayo, María J ^d   Rørvik, Jarle ^a,c   Santos, Andrés ^d   Lundervold, Arvid ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

DCE MRI; k means clustering; Kidney; Multi modality non rigid image registration; Renal function; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

DCE-MRI; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; KIDNEY; MULTI-MODALITY NON-RIGID IMAGE REGISTRATION; RENAL FUNCTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME SERIES; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GADODIAMIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; AUTOANALYSIS; AUTOMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY PELVIS; KIDNEY PERFUSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VALIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 60649112631     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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