A logarithmic opinion pool based STAPLE algorithm for the fusion of segmentations with associated reliability weights

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1997-2009

  Akhondi Asl, Alireza ^a   Hoyte, Lennox ^b   Lockhart, Mark E ^c   Warfield, Simon K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical structure; image fusion; image registration; image segmentation; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; POOL-BASED;

IMAGE FUSION;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUSION ALGORITHM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS FLOOR; REGISTRATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC FLOOR;

EID: 84907722099     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2329603     Document Type: Article

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