Interaction in the segmentation of medical images: A survey

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 127-142

  Olabarriaga, S D ^a   Smeulders, A W M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human computer interaction; Image segmentation; Interactive segmentation; Medical images

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0035384134     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(00)00041-4     Document Type: Article

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