Development and Evaluation of an Algorithm for the Computer-Assisted Segmentation of the Human Hypothalamus on 7-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Images

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Schindler, Stephanie ^a   Schönknecht, Peter ^a   Schmidt, Laura ^a   Anwander, Alfred ^b   Strauß, Maria ^a   Trampel, Robert ^b   Bazin, Pierre Louis ^b   Möller, Harald E ^b   Hegerl, Ulrich ^a   Turner, Robert ^b   Geyer, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SEGMENTATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84880713930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066394     Document Type: Article

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