MRI segmentation of the human brain: Challenges, methods, and applications

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Despotović, Ivana ^a   Goossens, Bart ^a   Philips, Wilfried ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BIAS FIELD CORRECTIONS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY; IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTION; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; VALIDATION PROBLEM;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ALGORITHM; BRAIN MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84925307961     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/450341     Document Type: Review

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