Automated quantitative FLAIR analysis in hippocampal sclerosis

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 146-156

  Huppertz, Hans Jürgen ^a   Wagner, Jan ^b   Weber, Bernd ^b   House, Patrick ^c   Urbach, Horst ^b  

^a SWISS EPILEPSY CENTER   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Hamburg Epilepsy Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

FLAIR; Focal epilepsy; Hippocampal sclerosis; MRI; Post processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FLAIR ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCLEROSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81055140455     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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