Skull stripping based on region growing for magnetic resonance brain images

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1394-1407

  Park, Jong Geun ^a   Lee, Chulhee ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

2D region growing; Magnetic resonance images (MRI); Masking; Skull stripping

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL;

EID: 67651020814     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.04.047     Document Type: Article

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