Estimation of tumor volume with fuzzy-connectedness segmentation of MR images

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 356-363

  Moonis, Gul ^a   Liu, Jianguo ^a   Udupa, Jayaram K ^a   Hackney, David B ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036127479     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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