Accelerating Fibre Orientation Estimation from Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using GPUs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Hernández, Moisés ^a,d   Guerrero, Ginés D ^a   Cecilia, José M ^b   García, José M ^a   Inuggi, Alberto ^c   Jbabdi, Saad ^d   Behrens, Timothy E J ^d   Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT; COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAMMING MODEL; COMPUTER; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PARAMETRIC TEST; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84876920763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061892     Document Type: Article

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