Prostate boundary segmentation from ultrasound images using 2D active shape models: Optimisation and extension to 3D

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 84, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 99-113

  Hodge, Adam C ^a   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b   Downey, Dónal B ^b   Ladak, Hanif M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active shape model; Cancer; Optimisation; Prostate; Segmentation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ULTRASONICS;

ACTIVE SHAPE MODEL; ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS (ASM); BOUNDARY OUTLINES; SEMI-AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; IMAGE DISPLAY; PROSTATE CANCER; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATE;

EID: 33846005500     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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