Encoding probabilistic brain atlases using Bayesian inference

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 822-837

  Van Leemput, Koen ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas formation; Bayesian inference; Brain modeling; Computational anatomy; Image registration; Mesh generation; Model comparison

Indexed keywords

ATLAS FORMATION; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BRAIN MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL ANATOMY; MODEL COMPARISON;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; MESH GENERATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 66249105028     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2010434     Document Type: Article

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