A fast and stable method for detecting and tracking medical organs in MRI sequences

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E82-D, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 497-499

  Rang, Dong Joong ^a   Kim, Chang Yong ^a,b   Seo, Yang Seok ^a   Kweontt, In So ^a  

^a Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active contours; Dynamic programming; Image processing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; MEDICAL ORGANS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0033341823     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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