Semi-automatic segmentation for 3D motion analysis of the tongue with dynamic MRI

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 714-724

  Lee, Junghoon ^a,b   Woo, Jonghye ^b,c   Xing, Fangxu ^b   Murano, Emi Z ^d   Stone, Maureen ^c   Prince, Jerry L ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable registration; Dynamic MRI; Motion; Random walker; Segmentation; Super resolution reconstruction; Tongue

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DEFORMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; DYNAMIC MRI; MOTION; RANDOM WALKERS; SUPER RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION; TONGUE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DICE SIMILARITY COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOUTH CAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RANDOM WALKER SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH TASK; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TONGUE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TONGUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84910671561     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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