Comparative performance evaluation of automated segmentation methods of hippocampus from magnetic resonance images of temporal lobe epilepsy patients

Medical Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 538-553

  Hosseini, Mohammad Parsa ^a,b   Nazem Zadeh, Mohammad Reza ^b   Pompili, Dario ^a   Jafari Khouzani, Kourosh ^c   Elisevich, Kost ^d,e   Soltanian Zadeh, Hamid ^f,g  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d SPECTRUM HEALTH   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^g INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

hippocampus; image processing; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); medical imaging; segmentation; temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BRAIN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETISM; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; RESONANCE;

AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION METHOD; BRAIN STRUCTURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGES PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEGMENTATION; STRUCTURE SEGMENTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY PATIENTS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ALGORITHM; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84954041759     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4938411     Document Type: Article

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