The watershed algorithm: A method to segment noisy pet transmission images

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 713-719

  Riddell, C ^a   Brigger, P ^a   Carson, R E ^a   Bacharach, S L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; IMAGE PIXELS; WATERSHED ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0033321724     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.775604     Document Type: Article

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