Differentiation of sCJD and vCJD forms by automated analysis of basal ganglia intensity distribution in multisequence MRI of the brain-definition and evaluation of new MRI-based ratios.
Marius George LinguraruNicholas AyacheÉric BardinetMiguel Ángel González BallesterDamien GalanaudStéphane HaïkBaptiste FaucheuxJ.-J. HauwPatrick CozzoneDidier DormontJean-Philippe BrandelPublished in: IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (2006)
Keyphrases
- intensity distribution
- basal ganglia
- automated analysis
- tissue segmentation
- mri data
- deep brain
- magnetic resonance images
- human brain
- mr images
- magnetic resonance imaging
- brain tissue
- image intensity
- white matter
- gaussian distribution
- action selection
- image pairs
- medical images
- pixel intensities
- connectionist models
- brain structures
- high resolution
- brain atlas
- edge information
- fully automatic
- shape prior
- gray matter
- registration errors
- information processing
- magnetic resonance
- feature extraction