Automated quantification of white matter disease extent at 3 T: Comparison with volumetric readings

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-311

  Hulsey, Keith M ^a   Gupta, Mohit ^a   King, Kevin S ^a   Peshock, Ronald M ^a   Whittemore, Anthony R ^a   McColl, Roderick W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic; FLAIR; MP RAGE; population; white matter disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DURA MATER; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MAGNETIZATION PREPARED RAPID ACQUISITION GRADIENT ECHO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864200951     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23659     Document Type: Article

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