Methods on Skull Stripping of MRI Head Scan Images—a Review

Journal of Digital Imaging - Tập 29 Số 3 - Trang 365-379 - 2016
P. Kalavathi1, V. B. Surya Prasath2
1Department of Computer Science and Applications, Gandhigram Rural Institute - Deemed University, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, 624302, India
2Computational Imaging and VisAnalysis (CIVA) Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA

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