Automatic cropping of MRI rat brain volumes using pulse coupled neural networks

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 845-854

  Murugavel, Murali ^a   Sullivan Jr , John M ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain cropping; Neural networks; PCNN; Segmentation; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 61449210705     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.021     Document Type: Article

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