Computer-aided kidney segmentation on abdominal CT images

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-65

  Lin, Daw Tung ^a   Lei, Chung Chih ^b   Hung, Siu Wan ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT images; Adaptive region growing; Computer aided kidney segmentation; Directional model; Elliptic region extraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATHOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

ABDOMINAL CT IMAGES; ADAPTIVE REGION GROWING; COMPUTER-AIDED KIDNEY SEGMENTATION; DIRECTIONAL MODEL; ELLIPTIC REGION EXTRACTION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 30744455457     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2005.855561     Document Type: Article

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