Medical Image Analysis
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 374-385 , February 2012

Multiscale 3D shape representation and segmentation with applications to hippocampal/caudate extraction from brain MRI

  • Yi Gao

      Affiliations

    • Schools of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 404 385 5062.
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  • Benjamin Corn

      Affiliations

    • Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizmann Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel
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  • Dan Schifter

      Affiliations

    • Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizmann Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel
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  • Allen Tannenbaum

      Affiliations

    • Schools of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250, USA

Received 5 May 2011 ,Revised 18 October 2011 ,Accepted 20 October 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.media.2011.10.002

Medical Image Analysis
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 374-385 , February 2012

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