Volumetric Segmentation of Medical Images by Three-Dimensional Bubbles

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 246-258

  Tek, Huseyin ^a   Kimia, Benjamin B ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL BUBBLES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031071919     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1996.0579     Document Type: Article

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