Deformable M-reps for 3D medical image segmentation

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 85-106

  Pizer, Stephen M ^a   Fletcher, P Thomas ^a   Joshi, Sarang ^a   Thall, Andrew ^a   Chen, James Z ^a   Fridman, Yonatan ^a   Fritsch, Daniel S ^a   Gash, A Graham ^a   Glotzer, John M ^a   Jiroutek, Michael R ^a   Lu, Conglin ^a   Muller, Keith E ^a   Tracton, Gregg ^a   Yushkevich, Paul ^a   Chaney, Edward L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable model; Medial; Medical image; Object; Segmentation; Shape

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DEFORMABLE MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT ELONGATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0242653704     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026313132218     Document Type: Article

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