Image-Driven Population Analysis Through Mixture Modeling

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1473-1487

  Sabuncu, Mert R ^a   Balci, Serdar K ^a   Golland, Polina ^a   Shenton, Martha E ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; computational anatomy; image registration; population analysis; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 71849086500     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2017942     Document Type: Article

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