Cluster Confidence Index: A Streamline-Wise Pathway Reproducibility Metric for Diffusion-Weighted MRI Tractography

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 64-69

  Jordan, Kesshi M ^a,b   Amirbekian, Bagrat ^a,b   Keshavan, Anisha ^a,b   Henry, Roland G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; open source software; probabilistic tractography; Reproducibility of results; white matter fascicle model

Indexed keywords

AGNOSTIC; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FILTRATION; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOFTWARE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85030157810     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jon.12467     Document Type: Article

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