Watershed-based segmentation of 3D MR data for volume quantization

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 679-688

  Sijbers, Jan ^a   Scheunders, P ^a   Verhoye, M ^a   Van Der Linden, A ^a   Van Dyck, D ^a   Raman, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

3D segmentation; MR Imaging; Volume quantization; Watershed algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 0030801595     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(97)00033-7     Document Type: Article

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