Decomposing the Hounsfield unit: Probabilistic segmentation of brain tissue in computed tomography

Clinical Neuroradiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-91

  Kemmling, A ^a   Wersching, H ^a   Berger, K ^a   Knecht, S ^a   Groden, C ^b   Nolte I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated brain segmentation; Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF); Computed tomography; Decomposition; Gray matter; White matter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN TISSUE SEGMENTATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857923999     PISSN: 09397116     EISSN: 16156706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00062-011-0123-0     Document Type: Article

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