Fully automated rodent brain MR image processing pipeline on a Midas server: From acquired images to region-based statistics

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue JULY 2013, 2013, Pages

  Budin, Francois ^a   Hoogstoel, Marion ^a   Reynolds, Patrick ^b   Grauer, Michael ^b   O'Leary Moore, Shonagh K ^a   Oguz, Ipek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KITWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic processing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rodent; Server

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDAS SERVER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RODENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84887277686     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2013.00015     Document Type: Article

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