Variational level set combined with Markov random field modeling for simultaneous intensity non-uniformity correction and segmentation of MR images

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 280-289

  Shahvaran, Zahra ^a   Kazemi, Kamran ^a   Helfroush, Mohammad Sadegh ^a   Jafarian, Nassim ^a   Noorizadeh, Negar ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Intensity non uniformity; Level set; Markov random field; MRI; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FSL FAST METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; KERNEL METHOD; LOCAL GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION FITTING; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84864069873     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.06.012     Document Type: Article

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