Automatic volumetry on MR brain images can support diagnostic decision making
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Automatic volumetry on MR brain images can support diagnostic decision making
BACKGROUND Diagnostic decisions in clinical imaging currently rely almost exclusively on visual image interpretation. This can lead to uncertainty, for example in dementia disease, where some of the changes resemble those of normal ageing. We hypothesized that extracting volumetric data from patients' MR brain images, relating them to reference data and presenting the results as a colour overla...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Imaging
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1471-2342
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-8-9