Novel multistage three-dimensional medical image segmentation: Methodology and validation

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 740-748

  Gu, Lixu ^a   Xu, Jianfeng ^a   Peters, Terence M ^b,c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fast marching; Local radial distance errors (LRDE); Medical image; Morphological reconstruction; Radial distance based validation (RDBV); Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FAST MARCHING; LOCAL RADIAL DISTANCE ERRORS; MORPHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION; RADIAL DISTANCE-BASED VALIDATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 33750216551     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.875665     Document Type: Article

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