Automatic Segmentation and Classification of Multiple Sclerosis in Multichannel MRI

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2461-2469

  Akselrod Ballin, Ayelet ^a   Galun, Meirav ^b   Basri, Ronen ^b   Brandt, Achi ^b   Gomori, John Moshe ^c   Filippi, Massimo ^d   Valsasina, Paola ^d  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; MRI; multiple sclerosis; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 74049148759     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.926671     Document Type: Article

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