Segmentation of anatomical structures in x-ray computed tomography images using artificial neural networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 III, Issue , 2002, Pages 1640-1652

  Zhang, Di ^a   Valentino, Daniel J ^a  

^a Mail Stop 172115 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Medical image segmentation; Tissue classification

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (HANN);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; TISSUE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036029204     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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