Tumor segmentation from small animal PET using region growing based on gradient magnitude

Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry, HEALTHCOM 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 243-247

  Lee, Yu Bu ^a   Song, Soo Min ^a   Lee, Jae Sung ^b   Kim, Myoung Hee ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gradient magnitude; Region growing; Small animal PET images; Tumor segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TUMORS;

GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; REGION GROWING; SMALL ANIMAL PET IMAGES; TUMOR SEGMENTATION;

ONCOLOGY;

EID: 33745227369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HEALTH.2005.1500450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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