Segmentation of magnetic resonance images using a combination of neural networks and active contour models

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-86

  Middleton, Ian ^a   Damper, Robert I ^b  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active contour models; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

MEDICAL IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENERGY; LUNG; MOLECULAR MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; TRUNK;

EID: 0344009664     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(03)00137-1     Document Type: Article

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