Evaluation of group-specific, whole-brain atlas generation using Volume-based Template Estimation (VTE): Application to normal and Alzheimer's populations

NeuroImage

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 406-419

  Zhang, Yajing ^a   Zhang, Jiangyang ^a   Hsu, Johnny ^a   Oishi, Kenichi ^a   Faria, Andreia V ^a   Albert, Marilyn ^a   Miller, Michael I ^a,b   Mori, Susumu ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

MRI; Study specific atlas; Volume based Template Estimation (VTE); Volume surface analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUBCORTEX; VOLUME BASED TEMPLATE ESTIMATION; ALGORITHM; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84884944608     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.011     Document Type: Article

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