Recognition of abdominal organs using 3D mathematical morphology

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 75-83

  Fujimoto, Hideyuki ^a   Gu, Lixu ^a   Kaneko, Toyohisa ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D morphology; CT; Medical image processing; Recognition of abdominal organs; Top hat

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ABDOMINAL ORGANS RECOGNITION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE; DIFFERENTIAL TOP HAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036641252     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/scj.1148     Document Type: Article

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