Skull stripping/Bibliography

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• Hu Q, Qian G, Teistler M, Huang S (2008 Mar-Apr). "Automatic and adaptive brain morphometry on MR images". Radiographics 28 (2): 345-56. DOI:10.1148/rg.282075083. PMID 18349444. Research Blogging. ^[e]

Provides a good overview of image segmentation techniques commonly applied to neuroimaging data in the framework of brain morphometry. Includes a section on brain extraction algorithms.

• Smith SM (2002). "Fast robust automated brain extraction". Hum Brain Mapp 17 (3): 143-55. DOI:10.1002/hbm.10062. PMID 12391568. Research Blogging. ^[e]

The theoretical basis for the popular FSL BET package for brain extraction from neuroimaging data, with the following basic processing steps:

1. Binarization of the image based on a threshold estimated from the histogram
2. Determination of centre of gravity of the binary image and of the radius of a sphere with a volume equivalent to the number of above-threshold voxels
3. Initialization of a tesselated surface of a sphere with half that radius
4. Surface growing until the enclosed volume reaches the size of the full sphere and is topologically correct

• Lemieux L, Hagemann G, Krakow K, Woermann FG (1999). "Fast, accurate, and reproducible automatic segmentation of the brain in T1-weighted volume MRI data". Magn Reson Med 42 (1): 127-35. PMID 10398958. ^[e]

Describes a fully automated 3D brain extraction algorithm that works independently of scan orientation.