The effects of changing water content, relaxation times, and tissue contrast on tissue segmentation and measures of cortical anatomy in MR images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1709-1730

  Bansal, Ravi ^a   Hao, Xuejun ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Xu, Dongrong ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Peterson, Bradley S ^a  

^a New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical MRI; Expectation maximization; Markov random field; Segmentation; Tissue contrast

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WATER CONTENT; WHITE MATTER;

ANATOMICAL MRI; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; SEGMENTATION; TISSUE CONTRAST;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; BODY WATER; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84887154482     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.07.017     Document Type: Article

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