Unsupervised segmentation of cardiac PET transmission images for automatic heart volume extraction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1077-1080

  Juslin, Anu ^a   Tohka, Jussi ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS (MRF); SURFACE EXTRACTION; TRANSMISSION IMAGES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART; HEART VOLUME; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CARDIAC VOLUME; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34047128734     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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