Automatic segmentation of ventricular cerebrospinal fluid from ischemic stroke ct images

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-172

  Poh, L E ^a   Gupta, V ^a   Johnson, A ^a   Kazmierski, R ^b   Nowinski, W L ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

CT; Registration; Segmentation; Stroke; Ventriclular system

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VENTRICULOGRAPHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STROKE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL VENTRICULOGRAPHY; FOURTH VENTRICLE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861187215     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-011-9135-9     Document Type: Article

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