Snake-Based Liver Lesion Segmentation

Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 187-191

  Krishnamurthy, Chetankumar ^a   Rodríguez, Jeffrey J ^a   Gillies, Robert J ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; FUZZY EDGE INFORMATION; LIVER LESIONS; SNAKE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DRUG THERAPY; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOLOGY; TISSUE; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 2942613837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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