Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 148, Issue 2 , Pages 133-142 , 1 December 2006

A fully automated method for quantifying and localizing white matter hyperintensities on MR images

  • Minjie Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • ,
  • Caterina Rosano

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • ,
  • Meryl Butters

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • ,
  • Ellen Whyte

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • ,
  • Megan Nable

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • ,
  • Ryan Crooks

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • ,
  • Carolyn C. Meltzer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • ,
  • Charles F. Reynolds III

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • ,
  • Howard J. Aizenstein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Tel.: +1 412 624 4997; fax: +1 412 624 0223.

Received 13 December 2005 ,Revised 16 June 2006 ,Accepted 11 September 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.09.003

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 148, Issue 2 , Pages 133-142 , 1 December 2006

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