Accurate and robust extraction of brain regions using a deformable model based on radial basis functions

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 255-266

  Liu, Jia Xiu ^a   Chen, Yong Sheng ^a   Chen, Li Fen ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Brain extraction; Deformable model; Radial basis function; Skull stripping

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 69949098104     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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