Automatic Rib Segmentation in CT Data

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

Volumn 3117, Issue , 2004, Pages 193-204

  Staal, Joes ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a   Viergever, Max A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CENTERLINES; ELONGATED STRUCTURES; HUMAN OBSERVERS; IMAGE STRUCTURES; RIB CAGES; RIB SEGMENTATION; SEEDED REGION GROWING; SUPERVISED METHODS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745377291     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27816-0_17     Document Type: Article

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