Visualizatlon of anatomical structures of epigastric organs by use of automatically segmented 3-d ultrasound image volumes - first results

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 47, Issue s1b, 2002, Pages 633-635

  Overhoff, U M ^a   Cornelius, T ^a   Maas, S ^a   Hollerbach, S ^b  

^a WESTPHALIAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

image segmentation; sonography; three dimensional; tumor detection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036357832     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bmte.2002.47.s1b.633     Document Type: Article

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