Automatic brain extraction methods for T1 magnetic resonance images using region labeling and morphological operations

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 716-725

  Somasundaram, K ^a   Kalaiselvi, T ^a  

^a GANDHIGRAM RURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Abnormal MRI head scans; Brain extraction; Intensity thresholding; Labeling; Region identification; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL MRI HEAD SCANS; BRAIN ANATOMY; BRAIN EXTRACTION; BRAIN EXTRACTION TOOLS; BRAIN SURFACE EXTRACTORS; CONNECTED COMPONENT; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; GOLD STANDARDS; INTENSITY THRESHOLDING; LABELED IMAGES; LARGEST CONNECTED COMPONENT; LEVEL SET; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; MRI SCAN; PROCESSING TIME; REGION IDENTIFICATION; REGION LABELING; RUN LENGTH; SIMILARITY INDICES; THRESHOLDING METHODS;

BINARY IMAGES; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EXTRACTION METHOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79960640086     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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