On the construction of a ground truth framework for evaluating voxel-based diffusion tensor MRI analysis methods

NeuroImage

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 692-707

  Van Hecke, Wim ^a,b   Sijbers, Jan ^a   De Backer, Steve ^a   Poot, Dirk ^a   Parizel, Paul M ^b   Leemans, Alexander ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atlas construction; Coregistration; Diffusion tensor imaging; Simulated data; Voxel based analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64949183332     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.02.032     Document Type: Article

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