Liver segmentation for CT images using GVF snake

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3699-3706

  Liu, Fan ^a   Zhao, Binsheng ^a   Kijewski, Peter K ^a   Wang, Liang ^a   Schwartz, Lawrence H ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Edge map; GVF; Image segmentation; Liver contour; Snake

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CANNY EDGE DETECTORS; CONTRAST-ENHANCED CT; EDGE MAP; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; LIVER SEGMENTATION; REMOVAL ALGORITHMS; SNAKE; VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FLOW; FORCE; HUMAN; LIVER SLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644992974     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2132573     Document Type: Article

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