Segmentation of human skull in MRI using statistical shape information from CT data

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 490-498

  Wang, Defeng ^a   Shi, Lin ^a   Chu, Winnie C W ^a,b   Cheng, Jack C Y ^a   Heng, Pheng Ann ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Active shape model; Magnetic resonance imaging; Skull segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69449087768     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21864     Document Type: Article

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