BTK: An open-source toolkit for fetal brain MR image processing

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-73

  Rousseau, François ^a   Oubel, Estanislao ^a   Pontabry, Julien ^a   Schweitzer, Marc ^a   Studholme, Colin ^b   Koob, Mériam ^c,d   Dietemann, Jean Louis ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Université de Strasbourg Faculté de Psychologie   (France)

^d HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

Author keywords

Fetal MRI; Image reconstruction; Open source software; Tractography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN MR; CLINICAL COURSE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DE-NOISING; FETAL MRI; INSIGHT TOOLKIT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN-SOURCE; SUPER RESOLUTION; TRACTOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION TOOLKITS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); BRAIN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CURRICULA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FETAL BRAIN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FETUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84869873559     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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