Automated brain structure segmentation based on atlas registration and appearance models

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 276-286

  Van Der Lijn, Fedde ^a   De Bruijne, Marleen ^a,b   Klein, Stefan ^a   Den Heijer, Tom ^a,c   Hoogendam, Yoo Y ^a   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Breteler, Monique M B ^d   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,e  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^d GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atlas registration; brain structures; graph cuts; MRI; pattern recognition; segmentation

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE MODELS; APPEARANCE-BASED METHODS; ATLAS REGISTRATION; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; BRAIN STRUCTURE; BRAIN STRUCTURES; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA SETS; GAUSSIANS; GRAPH CUT; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; NEURO-IMAGING; PROBABILITY MAPS; SCALE-SPACE; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; SIMILARITY INDICES; SPATIAL MODELS; TARGET IMAGES;

BRAIN; BRAIN MODELS; GRAPHIC METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84856738465     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2168420     Document Type: Article

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