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===Module Name===
Skull Stripper

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== General Information ==
===Module Type & Category===

Type: CLI

Category: Segmentation

===Authors, Collaborators & Contact===
* Author: Xiaodong Tao
* Contact:  taox at research.ge.com

===Module Description===


== Usage ==

===Examples, Use Cases & Tutorials===


===Quick Tour of Features and Use===

== Development ==

===Dependencies===

No other modules are required for this module. 

===Known bugs===

None.

===Usability issues===

Developed and tested on T1 weighted images from OASIS database. In some cases, when partial volume artifact is severe, the algorithm does not find the accurate brain boundary. 

===Source code & documentation===

Source Code: 

XML Description: 

Usage:

== More Information == 

===Acknowledgment===
This work is part of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC), funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant U54 EB005149. Implementation of the Fuzzy Classification was contributed by Dr. Ming-Ching Chang from GE Research.

[http://www.oasis-brains.org/ OASIS datasets] were used to generate images on this page.

===References===

* Xiaodong Tao, Ming-ching Chang, “A Skull Stripping Method Using Deformable Surface and Tissue Classification”, SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, 2010.
* Ming-ching Chang, Xiaodong Tao “Subvoxel Segmentation and Representation of Brain Cortex Using Fuzzy Clustering and Gradient Vector Diffusion”, SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, 2010.