A semi-automatic image segmentation method for extraction of brain volume from in vivo mouse head magnetic resonance imaging using Constraint Level Sets

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 338-344

  Uberti, Mariano G ^a   Boska, Michael D ^a   Liu, Yutong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain extraction; Image segmentation; Level set; Mouse brain; MRI

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TISSUE; EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICE, SCID; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 63049098646     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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