Medical image segmentation with knowledge-guided robust active contours

Radiographics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 437-448

  Boscolo, Riccardo ^a   Brown, Matthew S ^b   McNitt Gray, Michael F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Images, digitization; Images, display; Images, processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036517976     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.22.2.g02mr26437     Document Type: Article

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