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Volume 17, Issue 11 , Pages 1350-1358 , November 2010

Automatic Segmentation of Cerebrospinal Fluid, White and Gray Matter in Unenhanced Computed Tomography Images

Varsha Gupta, PhD
- Biomedical Imaging Lab, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 30 Biopolis Street, #07-01 Matrix, Singapore, 138671
- Address correspondence to: V.G.
Wojciech Ambrosius, MD, PhD
- Biomedical Imaging Lab, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 30 Biopolis Street, #07-01 Matrix, Singapore, 138671
Guoyu Qian, MSc
- Biomedical Imaging Lab, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 30 Biopolis Street, #07-01 Matrix, Singapore, 138671
Anna Blazejewska, MSc
- Biomedical Imaging Lab, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 30 Biopolis Street, #07-01 Matrix, Singapore, 138671
Radoslaw Kazmierski, MD, PhD, DSc
- Department of Neurology and Cerebrovascular Disorders, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
Andrzej Urbanik, MD, PhD, DSc
- Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Wieslaw L. Nowinski, PhD, DSc
- Biomedical Imaging Lab, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 30 Biopolis Street, #07-01 Matrix, Singapore, 138671

Received 6 January 2010 ,Accepted 5 June 2010.

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