A continuous STAPLE for scalar, vector, and tensor images: An application to DTI analysis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 838-846

  Commowick, Olivier ^a   Warfield, Simon K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas; Diffusion tensor image (DTI); Expectation maximization (EM); Ground truth; Kullback Leibler divergence (KLD); STAPLE; Transformations; Validation

Indexed keywords

ATLAS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGE (DTI); EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION (EM); GROUND TRUTH; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE (KLD); STAPLE; TRANSFORMATIONS; VALIDATION;

DIFFUSION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

TENSORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 66249112850     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2010438     Document Type: Article

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