Unsupervised MRI segmentation of brain tissues using a local linear model and level set

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 243-259

  Rivest Hénault, David ^a   Cheriet, Mohamed ^a  

^a Synchromedia Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active contours; Brain scan; IBSR; Image segmentation; Level set; Local linear approximations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN MAPPING; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79451476073     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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