Voxel-guided morphometry ("VGM") and application to stroke.

Monitoring of cerebral diseases associated with a change of morphology (e.g., stroke) requires unprecedented accuracy for quantification of its morphological progression for each voxel. The purpose of this paper is to provide a technique [voxel-guided morphometry (VGM)] to quantify macroscopic anato...

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Published in:	IEEE Transactions on medical imaging 22, 1 (2003).
Main Author:	Schormann, T.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	MRI data sets. T/sub 1/-weighted magnetic resonance volumes. VGM. Accuracy. Affine movements. Bijective correspondence. Cerebral disease monitoring. Cerebral infarction. Changing morphology. Coarse linear alignment. Cross-correlation-based technique. Effective processing. Extended principle axes theory. Final morphometric measurements. Fine linear alignment. Gray-value-guided movement. High-dimensional deformation field. High-dimensional multiresolution full multigrid method. Ischemic regions. Linear registration errors. Macroscopic anatomical differences. Matrix-norm. Morphological progression. Nonlinear deformations. Quantification. Remote regions. Small alterations. Stroke. Volume alterations. Voxel-guided morphometry.