Three-Dimensional Sonographic Examination of the Midbrain for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Movement Disorders

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2041-2050

  Plate, Annika ^a   Ahmadi, Seyed Ahmad ^b   Pauly, Olivier ^b,c   Klein, Tassilo ^b   Navab, Nassir ^b   Bötzel, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D ultrasound; Bilateral 3D reconstruction; Interobserver comparison; Manual segmentation; Parkinson diagnosis; Quantitative data analysis; Transcranial ultrasound

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; 3D RECONSTRUCTION; INTEROBSERVER COMPARISON; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE DATA; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84870266126     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.07.017     Document Type: Article

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