Segmentation of brain CT images using the concept of region growing

International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 133-147

  Sandor, Tamas ^a   Metcalf, David ^a   Kim, Young Jo ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain scans; Digital radiology; Feature extraction; Image segmentation; Region Growing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMAN; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0025948287     PISSN: 00207101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0020-7101(91)90004-X     Document Type: Article

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