Skull-stripping method for brain MRI using a 3D level set with a speedup operator

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 445-456

  Hwang, Jinyoung ^a   Han, Yeji ^a   Park, Hyunwook ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

level set method; segmentation; skull stripping; speedup operator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SKULL STRIPPING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79960586621     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22661     Document Type: Article

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