Current methods in medical image segmentation

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 2000, 2000, Pages 315-337

  Pham, Dzung L ^a,b   Xu, Chenyang ^a   Prince, Jerry L ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Deformable models; Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 0034575445     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bioeng.2.1.315     Document Type: Article

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