Evolving bubbles for prostate surface detection from TRUS images

Proceedings - 3rd IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, BIBE 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 115-121

  Shao, Fan ^a   Ling, Leck Voon ^a   Ng, Wan Sing ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; UROLOGY;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LEVEL SET METHOD; PROSTATE DISEASE; REGION INFORMATION; SURFACE DETECTION; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33845966212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2003.1188936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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