Automatic segmentation of liver region through blood vessels on multi-phase CT

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 735-738

  Saitoh, Takeshi ^a   Tamura, Yuta ^a   Kaneko, Toyohisa ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS; DIAGNOSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ABUTTING ORGANS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; LIVER DISEASES; MORPHOLOGICAL DILATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS;

AUTOMATIC METHOD; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CT DATA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER REGIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL DILATION; THIRD PHASE;

EID: 18744416865     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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