Automated longitudinal intra-subject analysis (ALISA) for diffusion MRI tractography

NeuroImage

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 404-416

  Aarnink, Saskia H ^a,b   Vos, Sjoerd B ^a   Leemans, Alexander ^a   Jernigan, Terry L ^c,d,e,f   Madsen, Kathrine Skak ^c,d   Baaré, William F C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ELKERLIEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; DTI; Longitudinal data analyses; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED LONGITUDINAL INTRA SUBJECT ANALYSIS; AUTOMATION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDARDIZATION; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; AUTOANALYSIS; AUTOMATED INTER SUBJECT ANALYSIS; FORCEPS MAJOR; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRA RATER RELIABILITY; MANUAL FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY SEGMENTATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUPERIOR SEGMENT OF THE CINGULUM; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER FIBER BUNDLE;

DIFFUSION MRI; DTI; LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSES; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84891630730     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.026     Document Type: Article

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