Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 360-372 , June 2010

Automatic cerebral and cerebellar hemisphere segmentation in 3D MRI: Adaptive disconnection algorithm

  • Lu Zhao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
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  • Ulla Ruotsalainen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
    • ,
  • Jussi Hirvonen

      Affiliations

    • Turku PET Centre, Turku University Central Hospital, FIN-20520 Turku, Finland
    • ,
  • Jarmo Hietala

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland
    • ,
  • Jussi Tohka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 23 January 2009 ,Revised 17 September 2009 ,Accepted 1 February 2010.

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Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 360-372 , June 2010

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