Simple paradigm for extra-cerebral tissue removal: Algorithm and analysis

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1982-1992

  Carass, Aaron ^a   Cuzzocreo, Jennifer ^b   Wheeler, M Bryan ^a   Bazin, Pierre Louis ^b   Resnick, Susan M ^c   Prince, Jerry L ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain extraction; Medical image processing; Segmentation; Skull stripping; Watershed principle

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN EXTRACTION ALGORITHM; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; EXTRACTION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 79957473476     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.045     Document Type: Article

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