Hybrid segmentation of colon filled with air and opacified fluid for CT colonography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 358-368

  Franaszek, Marek ^a,b   Summers, Ronald M ^a,b   Pickhardt, Perry J ^c,d,e   Choi, J Richard ^c,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon segmentation; Ct colonography; Fuzzy connectedness; Zero level set

Indexed keywords

COLON SEGMENTATION; CT COLONOGRAPHY; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS; ZERO LEVEL SET;

ALGORITHMS; FLUIDS; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; SCANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33644621419     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.863836     Document Type: Article

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