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Brain segmentation: In brain morphometry, the decomposition of an image of the brain into different classes of tissue, e.g. white matter, grey matter or cerebrospinal fluid. [e]
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Parent topics
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Morphometry [r]: The quantitative study of shapes. [e]
- Brain morphometry [r]: The quantitative study of structures in the brain, their differences between individuals, correlations with brain function, and changes of these characteristics over time. [e]
- Image segmentation [r]: The (usually algorithmic) decomposition of an image on the basis of some of its properties, e.g. edges or intensity gradients. [e]
Subtopics
- Grey matter [r]: A subset of brain tissue that contains few myelinated axons but the somas of nerve cells, as well as glia and endothelial structures. [e]
- White matter [r]: A subset of brain tissue whose volume is dominated by myelinated axons of nerve cells. [e]
- Cerebrospinal fluid [r]: The liquid in which the central nervous system is embedded. [e]
- Pia mater [r]: The innermost of the meninges; surrounds the entire brain and spinal cord, descends into sulci. [e]
- Skull stripping [r]: A set of image segmentation techniques used to segment images of a vertebrate head into brain and non-brain tissue. [e]