Automatic Skull Stripping of Rat and Mouse Brain MRI Data Using U-Net

Accurate removal of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signal outside the brain, a.k.a., skull stripping, is a key step in the brain image pre-processing pipelines. In rodents, this is mostly achieved by manually editing a brain mask, which is time-consuming and operator dependent. Automating this ste...

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Main Authors: Li-Ming Hsu, Shuai Wang, Paridhi Ranadive, Woomi Ban, Tzu-Hao Harry Chao, Sheng Song, Domenic Hayden Cerri, Lindsay R. Walton, Margaret A. Broadwater, Sung-Ho Lee, Dinggang Shen, Yen-Yu Ian Shih
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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MRI
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2020.568614/full