@article{discovery1455903, pages = {438 -- 444}, title = {Brain volume estimation from post-mortem newborn and fetal MRI.}, year = {2014}, journal = {Neuroimage Clin}, volume = {6}, note = {{\copyright} 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).}, abstract = {Minimally invasive autopsy using post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valid alternative to conventional autopsy in fetuses and infants. Estimation of brain weight is an integral part of autopsy, but manual segmentation of organ volumes on MRI is labor intensive and prone to errors, therefore unsuitable for routine clinical practice. In this paper we aim to show that volumetric measurements of the post-mortem fetal and neonatal brain can be accurately estimated using semi-automatic techniques and a high correlation can be found with the weights measured from conventional autopsy results.}, author = {Orasanu, E and Melbourne, A and Cardoso, MJ and Modat, M and Taylor, AM and Thayyil, S and Ourselin, S}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2014.10.007}, keywords = {Autopsy, Brain volumes, CI, confidence interval, CSF, cerebrospinal fluid, Cerebrum, EM, expectation maximization, Fetus, GA, gestational age, GW, gestational weeks, MRI, magnetic resonance imaging, MaRIAS, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Autopsy Study, Newborn, Post-mortem MRI} }