Preprocessing for use in automatic volumetric liver segmentation from NMR data

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 2783-2787

  Ibrahim, Haidi ^a   Petrou, Maria ^a   Wells, Kevin ^a   Doran, Simon ^a   Olsen, Øystein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias field inhomogeneity; Contrast enhancement; Liver; NMR; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOISE ABATEMENT; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TUMORS;

BIAS FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FILTERED FREQUENCIES; LIVER;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 23844442992     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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