Evaluation of automated brain MR image segmentation and volumetry methods

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1310-1327

  Klauschen, Frederick ^a,e   Goldman, Aaron ^b   Barra, Vincent ^c   Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas ^b,d   Lundervold, Arvid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^d CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Segmentation; Structural MRI; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SIMULATION; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 63849340463     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20599     Document Type: Article

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