Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 343-359 , June 2010

An automated pipeline for cortical sulcal fundi extraction

  • Gang Li

      Affiliations

    • School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
    • ,
  • Lei Guo

      Affiliations

    • School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
    • ,
  • Jingxin Nie

      Affiliations

    • School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
    • ,
  • Tianming Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 2 December 2008 ,Revised 16 January 2010 ,Accepted 28 January 2010.

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Medical Image Analysis
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