Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 557-573 , May 2010

Brain MRI tissue classification based on local Markov random fields

  • Jussi Tohka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +358 3 31154960; fax: +358 3 31153087.
    • ,
  • Ivo D. Dinov

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles Medical School, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    • Department of Statistics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    • ,
  • David W. Shattuck

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles Medical School, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    • ,
  • Arthur W. Toga

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles Medical School, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

Received 15 June 2009 ,Revised 10 September 2009 ,Accepted 6 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.12.012

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 557-573 , May 2010

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