An automatic threshold-based scaling method for enhancing the usefulness of Tc-HMPAO SPECT in the diagnosis of alzheimer’s disease

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1496, Issue , 1998, Pages 623-630

  Saxena, Pankaj ^a   Pavel, Dan G ^a   Quintana, Juan Carlos ^b   Horwitz, Barry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALZHEIMER; AUTOMATIC THRESHOLD; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPUTER-BASED ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE CHANGES; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; SCALING METHOD; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC MAPPING;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 67649535812     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0056248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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