A multiresolution approach for contour extraction from brain images

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1844-1853

  Soltanian Zadeh, Hamid ^a,b   Windham, Joe P ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Contour extraction; Image registration; Image segmentation; Medical image analysis; Multiresolution

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; EDGE DETECTION; EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; CONTOUR EXTRACTION; CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGE; HIGHEST RESOLUTIONS; MULTI-RESOLUTION APPROACH; MULTIRESOLUTION; REGISTRATION METHODS; TRANSLATION PARAMETERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

EID: 0031435920     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598099     Document Type: Article

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