Prostate boundary segmentation from 3D ultrasound images

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1648-1659

  Hu, Ning ^a,b   Downey, Dónal B ^a,b,c   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b,c   Ladak, Hanif M ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deformation; Initialization; Mesh; Segmentation; Three dimensional ultrasound image

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISEASES; MESH GENERATION; PATIENT MONITORING; ULTRASONICS; UROLOGY;

3D ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; INITIALIZATION; MESH; PROSTATE BOUNDARY SEGMENTATION; SEMI-AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0037695868     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1586267     Document Type: Article

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