Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages 195-204 , April 2010

An automatic geometrical and statistical method to detect acoustic shadows in intraoperative ultrasound brain images

  • Pierre Hellier

      Affiliations

    • INRIA, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
    • INSERM, VisAGeS U746 Unit/Project, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: INRIA, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France. Tel.: +33 2 99 84 25 23; fax: +33 2 99 84 71 71.
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  • Pierrick Coupé

      Affiliations

    • INRIA, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
    • INSERM, VisAGeS U746 Unit/Project, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
    • University of Rennes 1, CNRS, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
    • Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • ,
  • Xavier Morandi

      Affiliations

    • INRIA, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
    • INSERM, VisAGeS U746 Unit/Project, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
    • University of Rennes 1, CNRS, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
    • University Hospital of Rennes, Department of Neurosurgery, Rennes, France
    • ,
  • D. Louis Collins

      Affiliations

    • Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Received 24 September 2008 ,Revised 27 October 2009 ,Accepted 29 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.media.2009.10.007

Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages 195-204 , April 2010

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