Robust statistical fusion of image labels

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 512-522

  Landman, Bennett A ^a   Asman, Andrew J ^a   Scoggins, Andrew G ^a   Bogovic, John A ^b   Xing, Fangxu ^b   Prince, Jerry L ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; delineation; labeling; parcellation; simultaneous truth and performance level estimation (STAPLE); statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CRITICAL TASKS; DATA SETS; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; DELINEATION; ERROR PRONES; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; IMAGE LABELING; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; INHERENT VARIABILITY; LABEL SETS; LARGE DATASETS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MISSING DATA; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PARCELLATION; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; ROBUST APPROACHES; TURNOVER RATE;

DATA FUSION; LABELING; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA MINING; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATA MINING; DOCUMENTATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84856697459     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2172215     Document Type: Article

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