Multi-stage segmentation of white matter hyperintensity, cortical and lacunar infarcts

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2379-2388

  Wang, Yanbo ^a   Catindig, Joseree Ann ^b   Hilal, Saima ^a   Soon, Hock Wei ^a   Ting, Eric ^b   Wong, Tien Yin ^a   Venketasubramanian, Narayanaswamy ^b   Chen, Christopher ^a   Qiu, Anqi ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^c AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cortical infarct; Lacunar infarct; Magnetic resonance imaging; White matter hyperintensity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LACUNAR STROKE; MALE; MULTI STAGE SEGMENTATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; STROKE, LACUNAR;

EID: 84858973070     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.034     Document Type: Article

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