Determining malignancy of brain tumors by analysis of vessel shape

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3217, Issue 1 PART 2, 2004, Pages 645-653

  Bullitt, Elizabeth ^a   Jung, Inkyung ^b   Muller, Keith ^b   Gerig, Guido ^c   Aylward, Stephen ^a   Joshi, Sarang ^a   Smith, Keith ^a   Lin, Weili ^a   Ewend, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; TUMORS;

IN VIVO IMAGES; MALIGNANT TUMORS; NONINVASIVE DETERMINATION; SURGICAL RESECTION; BRAIN TUMORS; MR IMAGES;

TUMORS; DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 11144277042     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30136-3_79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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