Confidence intervals for the volume of brain structures in Cavalieri sampling with local errors

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-77

  García Fiñana, Marta ^a   Keller, Simon S ^a   Roberts, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Confidence intervals; Epilepsy; Fourier transform; Magnetic resonance imaging; Systematic sampling; Variance; Volume estimator

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAVALIERI METHOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPILEPSY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIMULATION; SKULL; STEREOMETRY; VALIDITY; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 61649106484     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.01.026     Document Type: Article

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