State of the art survey on MRI brain tumor segmentation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1426-1438

  Gordillo, Nelly ^a   Montseny, Eduard ^b   Sobrevilla, Pilar ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CIUDAD JUÁREZ   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; MRI; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

BRAIN TUMOR; MRI; SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84883741497     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.05.002     Document Type: Review

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