Automated template-based hippocampal segmentations from MRI: The effects of 1.5T or 3T field strength on accuracy

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 405-412

  Macdonald, Kate E ^a   Leung, Kelvin K ^a,c   Bartlett, Jonathan W ^a,b   Blair, Melanie ^a   Malone, Ian B ^a   Barnes, Josephine ^a   Ourselin, Sebastien ^a,c   Fox, Nick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Atrophy rate; Automated segmentation; Field strength; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84904751368     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-013-9217-y     Document Type: Article

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