Atlas-based fiber bundle segmentation using principal diffusion directions and spherical harmonic coefficients

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Nazem Zadeh, Mohammad Reza ^a   Davoodi Bojd, Esmaeil ^a   Soltanian Zadeh, Hamid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas based segmentation; Automatic fiber bundle segmentation; Diffusion MRI; Level set; Principal diffusion directions; Spherical harmonic coefficients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; PRINCIPAL DIFFUSION DIRECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHERICAL HARMONIC COEFFICIENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 78650815237     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.035     Document Type: Article

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