Automated cerebellar segmentation: Validation and application to detect smaller volumes in children prenatally exposed to alcohol

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 295-301

  Cardenas, Valerie A ^a   Price, Mathew ^a   Infante, M Alejandra ^b   Moore, Eileen M ^b   Mattson, Sarah N ^b,c   Riley, Edward P ^b,c   Fein, George ^a  

^a Neurobehavioral Research Inc   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Cerebellum; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD); Segmentation; Vermis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ALGORITHM; ATROPHY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; ALGORITHMS; ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893230055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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