Lymph-node segmentation using active contours

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3034, Issue , 1997, Pages 265-273

  Honea, David M ^a,b   Ge, Yaorong ^b   Snyder, Wesley E ^a   Hemler, Paul F ^b   Vining, David J ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Lymph node segmentation; Snakes

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATIC METHODS; DIMENSIONAL SEGMENTATIONS; ENERGY NORMALIZATIONS; LYMPH NODE SEGMENTATION; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SNAKES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; VOLUME ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0037505104     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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