Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 181, Issue 3 , Pages 219-225 , 30 March 2010

Manual validation of FreeSurfer's automated hippocampal segmentation in normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer Disease subjects

  • Gonzalo Sánchez-Benavides

      Affiliations

    • Neuropsychopharmacology Program, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain
    • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Beatriz Gómez-Ansón

      Affiliations

    • Neuroradiology Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Aitor Sainz

      Affiliations

    • Port d'Informació Científica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Yolanda Vives

      Affiliations

    • Port d'Informació Científica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Manuel Delfino

      Affiliations

    • Port d'Informació Científica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Jordi Peña-Casanova

      Affiliations

    • Neuropsychopharmacology Program, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain
    • Section of Behavioral Neurology and Dementias, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Office 133, IMIM, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Aiguader St. 88, Barcelona, Spain. Tel.: +34 93 3160778; fax: +34 93 2483238.

Received 28 July 2009 ,Revised 23 October 2009 ,Accepted 23 October 2009.

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PII: S0925-4927(09)00244-3

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.10.011

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 181, Issue 3 , Pages 219-225 , 30 March 2010

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