Robust Tract Skeleton Extraction of Cingulum Based on Active Contour Model from Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Li, Wu ^a,b   Hu, Xiaoping ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CELL TRACKING; CINGULATE GYRUS; CRANIAL NERVE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKELETON; SKELETON EXTRACTION; THEORY VALIDATION; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84874486046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056113     Document Type: Article

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