Extraction from biological volume data of a region of interest with non-uniform intensity

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6051, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Shimai, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Yokota, Hideo ^b   Nakamura, Sakiko ^b   Himeno, Ryutaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological volume data; Image binarization; Region extraction; Region growing

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE CODING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BIOLOGICAL VOLUME DATA; IMAGE BINARIZATION; REGION EXTRACTION; REGION GROWING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33645076283     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.648945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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