An Adaptive Level Set Segmentation on a Triangulated Mesh

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 191-201

  Xu, Meihe ^a   Thompson, Paul M ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive improvement; Level set; MRI; Segmentation; Triangular mesh

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BRAIN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADAPTIVE IMPROVEMENT; LEVEL SETS; TRIANGULAR MESH;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1342345921     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.822823     Document Type: Article

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