Automatic liver segmentation of contrast enhanced CT images based on histogram processing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3610, Issue PART I, 2005, Pages 1027-1030

  Seo, Kyung Sik ^a   Kim, Hyung Bum ^a   Park, Taesu ^a   Kim, Pan Koo ^a   Park, Jong An ^a  

^a Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CT IMAGES; GRAY-LEVEL VALUES; HISTOGRAM PROCESSING; LIVER SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 26844465944     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11539087_135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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