Deformable templates guided discriminative models for robust 3D brain MRI segmentation

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 447-468

  Liu, Cheng Yi ^a   Iglesias, Juan Eugenio ^b   Tu, Zhuowen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain image segmentation; Deformable templates; Discriminative models; Fusion; Generative models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84886296426     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-013-9190-5     Document Type: Article

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