Development of extraction method of kidneys from abdominal CT images using a three-dimensional deformable model

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 37-46

  Tsagaan, Baigalmaa ^a   Shimizu, Akinobu ^a   Kobatake, Hidefumi ^a   Miyakawa, Kunihisa ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deformable model; Kidney extraction; Mahalanobis distance; NURBS surface; Three dimensional abdominal CT image

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

KIDNEY EXTRACTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0037401737     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/scj.10268     Document Type: Article

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