Skull stripping of neonatal brain MRI: Using prior shape information with graph cuts

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 802-814

  Mahapatra, Dwarikanath ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain; Gradient; Graph cuts; MRI; Neonatal; Segmentation; Shape prior

Indexed keywords

ADULT BRAIN; BRAIN EXTRACTION TOOLS; BRAIN IMAGES; BRAIN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; BRAIN MRI; BRAIN SURFACE EXTRACTORS; GRADIENT; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; GRAPH CUT; NEONATAL; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PENALTY TERM; PRIOR SHAPES; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; SHAPE PRIORS; SKULL STRIPPING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRAINING IMAGE;

BRAIN; GRAPHIC METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TISSUE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL;

EID: 84870053883     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-012-9460-z     Document Type: Article

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