Automatic segmentation of cerebral white matter hyperintensities using only 3D FLAIR images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1182-1189

  Simões, Rita ^a   Mönninghoff, Christoph ^b   Dlugaj, Martha ^b   Weimar, Christian ^b   Wanke, Isabel ^b   van Cappellen van Walsum, Anne Marie ^a,c   Slump, Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Fluid attenuation inversion recovery; Magnetic resonance imaging; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLUID ATTENUATION INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY;

EID: 84880716794     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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