Comparison of manual and semi-automated segmentation methods to evaluate hippocampus volume in APP and PS1 transgenic mice obtained via in vivo magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 221, Issue , 2014, Pages 103-111

  Hayes, Kerrie ^a   Buist, Richard ^b   Vincent, Trevor J ^a   Thiessen, Jonathan D ^b   Zhang, Yanbo ^c   Zhang, Handi ^d   Wang, Junhui ^b   Summers, Arthur R ^e   Kong, Jiming ^b   Li, Xin Min ^b   Martin, Melanie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d Ministry of Health   (China)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Hippocampus; MRI; Segmentation; Transgenic mouse models; Volume

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MRI; SEGMENTATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE MODELS; VOLUME;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRESENILIN-1; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84886809212     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.09.014     Document Type: Article

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