Segmentation of the skull in MRI volumes using a deformable model and taking the partial volume effect into account.
Hilmi RifaiIsabelle BlochSeth A. HutchinsonJoe WiartLine GarneroPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (1999)
Keyphrases
- deformable models
- medical images
- partial volume effects
- magnetic resonance imaging
- mri images
- cerebrospinal fluid
- magnetic resonance images
- magnetic resonance
- mr images
- anatomical structures
- shape prior
- medical image analysis
- brain images
- ct images
- mri brain
- medical imaging
- mri data
- partial volume
- grey matter
- white matter
- object boundaries
- soft tissue
- image segmentation
- computed tomography
- brain mri
- image intensity
- imaging modalities
- clinical applications
- computer tomography
- level set method
- brain mr images
- gray matter
- intensity distribution
- region of interest
- manual segmentation
- segmentation method
- active appearance models
- image analysis
- three dimensional
- brain tumors
- brain structures
- shape variations
- positron emission tomography
- image registration
- image processing