Markov random field modeling in posteroanterior chest radiograph segmentation

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1670-1677

  Vittitoe, Neal F ^a   Vargas Voracek, Rene ^a   Floyd, Carey E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest radiograph; Computer aided diagnosis; Markov random fields; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; PIXELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL REGIONS; CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; CLASSIFIEDS; INHERENT FLEXIBILITY; LABELINGS; LUNG REGIONS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; REGION TYPES; SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032808626     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598673     Document Type: Article

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