Manual, semi-automated, and automated delineation of chronic brain lesions: A comparison of methods

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2038-2046

  Wilke, Marko ^a   de Haan, Bianca ^b   Juenger, Hendrik ^a,c   Karnath, Hans Otto ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED DELINEATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MANUAL DELINEATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMIAUTOMATED DELINEATION; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

EID: 79957499537     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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