Cortical surface reconstruction via unified reeb analysis of geometric and topological outliers in magnetic resonance images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 511-530

  Shi, Yonggang ^a   Lai, Rongjie ^b   Toga, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical surface reconstruction; Laplace Beltrami eigenfunctions; Reeb graph; tissue classification; topology correction

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL SURFACES; IMAGE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM; LAPLACE-BELTRAMI EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; RECONSTRUCTED SURFACES; REEB GRAPH; TISSUE CLASSIFICATION;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION FILTERING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICS; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION; TISSUE;

TOPOLOGY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION RESEARCH; THICKNESS; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84875431093     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2224879     Document Type: Article

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