In-vivo brain anatomical connectivity using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and fuzzy connectedness

8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, BIBE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N ^a   Tench, Christopher R ^a   Bai, Li ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; BRAIN ANATOMICAL CONNECTIVITY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISCRETE IMAGES; EXECUTION TIME; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS; FUZZY FRAMEWORKS; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; IMAGE VOXELS; IN-VIVO; MEDICAL IMAGES; NON-INVASIVE; PATH PROPAGATION; REAL IMAGES; STREAMLINE TECHNIQUE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

BIOINFORMATICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 67549130948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2008.4696812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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