Robust clustering of massive tractography datasets

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1975-1993

  Guevara, P ^a,b,c   Poupon, C ^a,b   Riviere D ^a,b   Cointepas, Y ^a,b   Descoteaux, M ^e   Thirion, B ^a,b,d   Mangin, J F ^a,b  

^a DIF   (France)

^b Institut Federatif de Recherche 49   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^d INRIA SACLAY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; Fiber clustering; High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; TRACTOGRAPHY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78650209953     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.028     Document Type: Article

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