Automated liver segmentation using multislice CT images

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 71-82

  Masumoto, Jun ^a   Hori, Masatoshi ^b   Sato, Yoshinobu ^b   Murakami, Takamichi ^b   Johkoh, Takeshi ^b   Nakamura, Hironobu ^b   Tamura, Shinichi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrasted images; Histogram analyses; Morphology; Segmentation; Time variable images

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PATIENT TREATMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TUMORS;

THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0038004730     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/scj.10210     Document Type: Article

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