Method for automatically segmenting the spinal cord and canal from 3D CT images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3691 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 456-463

  Nyúl, Lászlo G ^a   Kanyó, Judit ^b   Máté, Eörs ^a   Makay, Géza ^a   Balogh, Emese ^a   Fidrich, Márta ^b   Kuba, Attila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b GE Medical Systems   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

NEIGHBORING SLICES; REGION-GROWING TECHNIQUE; REPEATABILITY REQUIREMENTS; SPINAL CORD/CANAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33646133897     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11556121_56     Document Type: Conference Paper

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