Medical Image Processing Techniques for the Objective Quantification of Pathology in Magnetic Resonance Images of the Brain

This thesis is focused on automatic detection of white matter lesions (WML) in Fluid Attenuation Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) of the brain. There is growing interest within the medical community regarding WML, since the total WML volume per patient (lesion load) was sho...

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Main Author: Khademi, April
Other Authors: Venetsanopoulos, Anastasios N.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/36288