A 2-D active appearance model for prostate segmentation in ultrasound images

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 3363-3366

  Medina, R ^a   Bravo, A ^b   Windyga, P ^c   Toro, J ^d   Yan, P ^c   Onik, G ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b Laboratory of High Performance Computing   (Venezuela)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^e FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODEL (AAM); MORPHOLOGY OPERATORS; TRANS-RECTAL ULTRASOUND (TRUS) IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33846919912     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1617198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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