Detection of colon wall outer boundary and segmentation of the colon wall based on level set methods

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3017-3020

  Van Uitert, R ^a,b   Bitter, I ^b   Summers, R M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLON SEGMENTATION; COLON WALL; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY (VC);

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; TISSUE;

ONCOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COLON; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COLON; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34047169923     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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