Robust automated amygdala segmentation via multi-atlas diffeomorphic registration

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Hanson, Jamie L ^a,c   Suh, Jung W ^b   Nacewicz, Brendon M ^c   Sutterer, Matthew J ^d   Cayo, Amelia A ^c   Stodola, Diane E ^c   Burghy, Cory A ^c   Wang, Hongzhi ^b   Avants, Brian B ^b   Yushkevich, Paul A ^b   Essex, Marilyn J ^e   Pollak, Seth D ^a,c   Davidson, Richard J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Amygdala volume; Automated segmentation; Diffeomorphic warping; Freesurfer; Hand tracing; Medial temporal lobe; Structural MRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACHINE LEARNING; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 84870953845     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00166     Document Type: Article

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