Comparative evaluation of image segmentation methods for volume quantitation in SPECT

Medical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 483-489

  Long, David T ^a   King, Michael A ^a   Sheehan, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

edge operators; SPECT; system resolution; volume quantitation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0026632674     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.596837     Document Type: Article

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