Self-supervised MRI tissue segmentation by discriminative clustering

International Journal of Neural Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gonçalves, Nicolau ^a   Nikkilä, Janne ^b   Vigário, Ricardo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b FINNISH RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brain tissue segmentation; Discriminative clustering; Self supervised; Tissue probabilities

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TISSUE SEGMENTATIONS; BRAIN-IMAGING DATA; DISCRIMINATIVE CLUSTERING; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; PATHOLOGICAL TISSUE; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SELF-SUPERVISED; TISSUE SEGMENTATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; NEUROIMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84890679247     PISSN: 01290657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S012906571450004X     Document Type: Article

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