Automated segmentation of multifocal basal ganglia T2*-weighted MRI hypointensities

NeuroImage

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages 332-346

  Glatz, Andreas ^a   Bastin, Mark E ^a,b   Kiker, Alexander J ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a,b   Valdés Hernández, Maria C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Automated segmentation; Basal ganglia; Focal T2* weighted MRI hypointensities; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Mineralization; Outlier detection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BASAL GANGLION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PUTAMEN; VALIDATION PROCESS; AGED; AGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGING; BASAL GANGLIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84918551370     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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