Computer-aided evaluation method of white matter hyperintensities related to subcortical vascular dementia based on magnetic resonance imaging

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 370-376

  Kawata, Yasuo ^a   Arimura, Hidetaka ^b   Yamashita, Yasuo ^a   Magome, Taiki ^a   Ohki, Masafumi ^b   Toyofuku, Fukai ^b   Higashida, Yoshiharu ^b   Tsuchiya, Kazuhiro ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer aided evaluation method; Magnetic resonance imaging; Subcortical vascular dementia; White matter hyperintensity

Indexed keywords

AREA RATIOS; BRAIN PARENCHYMA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION METHOD; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERIES; HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; IMAGE FEATURES; LEVEL SET METHOD; MANUAL METHODS; MR IMAGES; MR IMAGING; REGION-BASED; REGION-GROWING TECHNIQUES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SIMILARITY INDICES; VASCULAR DEMENTIA; WHITE MATTER;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77953021989     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.12.014     Document Type: Article

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