Medical Image Analysis
Volume 12, Issue 5 , Pages 603-615 , October 2008

Effects of registration regularization and atlas sharpness on segmentation accuracy

  • B.T. Thomas Yeo

      Affiliations

    • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 61 253 4413.
    • Thomas Yeo and Mert Sabuncu contributed equally to this work.
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  • Mert R. Sabuncu

      Affiliations

    • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Thomas Yeo and Mert Sabuncu contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Rahul Desikan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Bruce Fischl

      Affiliations

    • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
    • Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Bruce Fischl and Polina Golland contributed equally to this work.
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  • Polina Golland

      Affiliations

    • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Bruce Fischl and Polina Golland contributed equally to this work.

Received 31 January 2008 ,Revised 9 May 2008 ,Accepted 10 June 2008.

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Medical Image Analysis
Volume 12, Issue 5 , Pages 603-615 , October 2008

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