Generalized overlap measures for evaluation and validation in medical image analysis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1451-1461

  Crum, William R ^b   Camara, Oscar ^b   Hill, Derek L G ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Hausdorff distance; Morphological operations; Registration; Segmentation; Validation

Indexed keywords

GENERALIZED OVERLAP MEASURES; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33750843927     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.880587     Document Type: Article

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