Segmentation of articular cartilage using active contours and prior knowledge

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1648-1651

  Tejos, Cristián ^a   Hall, Laurance D ^a   Cárdenas Blanco, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active contours; Cartilage segmentation; Diffusion snakes; MRI; Prior knowledge

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SET THEORY;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CARTILAGE SEGMENTATION; DIFFUSION SNAKES; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE;

CARTILAGE;

EID: 11144266675     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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