Semi-automatic tracking of the diaphragm contour in X-ray image sequences: Preliminary results

Proceedings of the Digital Imaging Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 330-336

  Fujita, Takashi ^a   Chandrasekhar, Ramachandran ^a   Singh, Bhajan ^b   Finucane, Kevin E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DIAPHRAGMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; X RAY OPTICS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; DIAPHRAGM CONTOURS; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; X-RAY IMAGE SEQUENCES;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 33847000534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2005.1578146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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