Quantitation of the premature infant brain volume from MR images using watershed transform and Bayesian segmentation

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1117-1121

  Harri, Merisaari ^a,b   Mika, Teräs ^b   Esa, Alhoniemi ^a   Riitta, Parkkola ^a,b   Nevalainen Olli S , ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT BRAIN; BAYESIAN SEGMENTATION; BRAIN IMAGES; BRAIN VOLUME; GRAY MATTER; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY GRADIENTS; MR IMAGES; PREMATURE INFANTS; PRIORI INFORMATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; WATERSHED BASINS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION; WATERSHED TRANSFORM; WHITE MATTER;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84863735177     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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