A multi-atlas based method for automated anatomical rat brain MRI segmentation and extraction of PET activity.

INTRODUCTION:Preclinical in vivo imaging requires precise and reproducible delineation of brain structures. Manual segmentation is time consuming and operator dependent. Automated segmentation as usually performed via single atlas registration fails to account for anatomo-physiological variability....

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Main Authors: Sophie Lancelot, Roxane Roche, Afifa Slimen, Caroline Bouillot, Elise Levigoureux, Jean-Baptiste Langlois, Luc Zimmer, Nicolas Costes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109113