Segmentation of medical images using LEGION

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 74-91

  Shareef, Naeem ^a   Wang, Deliang L ^a   Yagel, Roni ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Legion, medical images, oscillatory correlation, segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

LOCALLY EXCITATORY GLOBALLY INHIBITORY OSCILLATOR NETWORK (LEGION);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032587693     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.750259     Document Type: Article

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