A fast deformable region model for brain tumor boundary extraction

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1055-1056

  Law, Albert K W ^a   Lam, F K ^a   Chan, Francis H Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Deformable model; MR image; Tumor boundary

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING; TUMORS;

BRAIN TUMOR BOUNDARY EXTRACTION; DEFORMABLE REGION MODEL; GRAY LEVEL DISTRIBUTION; POINT SAMPLING TECHNIQUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036906843     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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