Automatic segmentation of the human brain ventricles from MR images by knowledge-based region growing and trimming

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-146

  Liu, Jimin ^a   Huang, Su ^a   Nowinski, Wieslaw L ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Deformable model; Hysteretic thresholding; Image segmentation; Region growing and trimming; Ventricular system

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTISM; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651207982     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-009-9046-1     Document Type: Article

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