Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 346129, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/346129
Research Article
Validation of Alternating Kernel Mixture Method: Application to Tissue
Segmentation of Cortical and Subcortical Structures
Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Received 4 September 2007; Revised 28 February 2008; Accepted 25 June 2008
Academic Editor: Daniel Howard
Copyright © 2008 Nayoung A. Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the
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