Fully automated segmentation of the cervical cord from T1-weighted MRI using PropSeg: Application to multiple sclerosis

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 10, Issue , 2016, Pages 71-77

  Yiannakas, Marios C ^a   Mustafa, Ahmed M ^a   De Leener, Benjamin ^b   Kearney, Hugh ^a   Tur, Carmen ^a   Altmann, Daniel R ^a,c   De Angelis, Floriana ^a   Plantone, Domenico ^a   Ciccarelli, Olga ^a   Miller, David H ^a   Cohen Adad, Julien ^b,d   Gandini Wheeler Kingshott, Claudia A M ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cord cross sectional area; Grey matter; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED SPINAL CORD SEGMENTATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; FIFTH CERVICAL VERTEBRA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SECOND CERVICAL VERTEBRA; SEMI AUTOMATED ACTIVE SURFACE METHOD; SURFACE PROPERTY; ATROPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ATROPHY; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CERVICAL CORD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84948405800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.11.001     Document Type: Article

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