Nuclear medicine image segmentation using a connective network

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4 PART 1, 1997, Pages 1583-1590

  Peter, J ^a   Freyer, R ^a   Smith, M F ^a   Scarfone, C ^a   Coleman, R E ^a   Jaszczak, R J ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONNECTIVE NETWORKS; ISING MODEL; PIXEL LABELING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031210845     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.632736     Document Type: Article

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