Validation techniques for quantitative brain tumors measurements

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

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 7048-7051

  Salman, Y M ^a   Assal, M A ^b   Badawi, A M ^c   Alian, S M ^a   El Bayome, M El M ^d  

^a MTC

^b Modern Academy   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d Maadi Medical Hospital

Author keywords

Active contour and Quantitative measurements; Region growing

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR; REGION GROWING; SURGICAL PLANNING;

NEUROLOGY;

EID: 33846939577     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1616129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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