Fully automatic segmentation of MRI brain images using probabilistic anisotropic diffusion and multi-scale watersheds

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2695, Issue , 2003, Pages 641-656

  Undeman, Carl ^a,b   Lindeberg, Tony ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER VISION; DIFFUSION; ERRORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; STATISTICS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; PROBABILITY MEASURES; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; WATERSHED BOUNDARIES; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 34247375687     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44935-3_45     Document Type: Article

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