@inproceedings{6303c5e96d27426b915c138dad94a2a3,
title = "Quantifying brain development in early childhood using segmentation and registration",
abstract = "In this work we obtain estimates of tissue growth using longitudinal data comprising MR brain images of 25 preterm children scanned at one and two years. The growth estimates are obtained using segmentation and registration based methods. The segmentation approach used an expectation maximisation (EM) method to classify tissue types and the registration approach used tensor based morphometry (TBM) applied to a free form deformation (FFD) model. The two methods show very good agreement indicating that the registration and segmentation approaches can be used interchangeably. The advantage of the registration based method, however, is that it can provide more local estimates of tissue growth. This is the first longitudinal study of growth in early childhood, previous longitudinal studies have focussed on later periods during childhood.",
keywords = "Growth, Registration, Segmentation",
author = "P. Aljabar and Bhatia, {K. K.} and M. Murgasova and Hajnal, {J. V.} and Boardman, {J. P.} and L. Srinivasan and Rutherford, {M. A.} and Dyet, {L. E.} and Edwards, {A. D.} and D. Rueckert",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1117/12.706508",
language = "English",
isbn = "0819466301",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
number = "PART 1",
booktitle = "Medical Imaging 2007",
edition = "PART 1",
note = "Medical Imaging 2007: Image Processing ; Conference date: 18-02-2007 Through 20-02-2007",
}