dcemri: A Package for Medical Image Analysis (S4 implementation)

A collection of routines and documentation that allows one to perform a quantitative analysis of dynamic contrast-enhanced or diffusion-weighted MRI data. Medical imaging data should be organized using either the Analyze or NIfTI data formats.

Details

Further information is available in the following vignettes:

dcemriS4

dcemriS4(source, pdf)

References

Schmid, V., Whitcher, B., Padhani, A.R., Taylor, N.J. and Yang, G.-Z. (2006) Bayesian methods for pharmacokinetic models in dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 25 (12), 1627-1636.

Schmid, V., Whitcher, B., Padhani, A.R. and G.-Z. Yang (2009) A semi-parametric technique for the quantitative analysis of dynamic contrast-enhanced MR images based on Bayesian P-splines, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 28 (6), 789-798.

Author

Brandon Whitcher bwhitcher@gmail.com
Volker Schmid volkerschmid@users.sourceforge.net
Andrew Thornton zeripath@users.sourceforge.net

Examples

if (FALSE) {
demo(avg152T1)
demo(avg152T1LR)
demo(avg152T1RL)
demo(buckley)
demo(filtered_func_data)
demo(zstat1)
}