Brain volumetry: An active contour model-based segmentation followed by SVM-based classification

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 619-632

  Tanoori, Betsabeh ^a   Azimifar, Zohreh ^a   Shakibafar, Alireza ^b   Katebi, Sarajodin ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brain volumetry; Segmentation; SVM classifier; VFC active contour

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE CONTOURS; BRAIN IMAGES; BRAIN STRUCTURE; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN VOLUMETRY; CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; DATA SETS; GOLD STANDARDS; GRAY MATTER; METHOD VALIDATIONS; MODEL-BASED SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION PROCESS; SVM CLASSIFICATION; SVM CLASSIFIER; SVM CLASSIFIERS; VECTOR FIELDS; VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENT; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESONANCE; TISSUE;

BRAIN MODELS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN VOLUMETRY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL;

EID: 79960647784     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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