Automatic and quantitative assessment of regional muscle volume by multi-atlas segmentation using whole-body water-fat MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1558-1569

  Karlsson, Anette ^a   Rosander, Johannes ^b   Romu, Thobias ^a   Tallberg, Joakim ^a   Grönqvist, Anders ^a   Borga, Magnus ^a   Dahlqvist Leinhard, Olof ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Advanced MR Analytics AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

classification; MRI; multi atlas segmentation; muscle volume; muscles; registration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WHOLE BODY MRI; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BODY WATER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BODY WATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84930047374     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24726     Document Type: Article

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