Application of variable threshold intensity to segmentation for white matter hyperintensities in fluid attenuated inversion recovery magnetic resonance images

Neuroradiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 265-281

  Yoo, Byung Il ^a   Lee, Jung Jae ^b   Han, Ji Won ^a   Oh, San Yeo Wool ^a   Lee, Eun Young ^b   MacFall, James R ^c   Payne, Martha E ^c   Kim, Tae Hui ^a   Kim, Jae Hyoung ^a,d   Kim, Ki Woong ^a,d,e  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University Cancer Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Bayesian decision; FLAIR; Monospectral segmentation; White matter hyperintensity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED MONOSPECTRAL SEGMENTATION; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84897500023     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: 14321920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-014-1322-6     Document Type: Article

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