Prostate surface segmentation from 3D ultrasound images

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 613-616

  Hu, Ning ^a,b   Downey, Donal B ^a,c   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b,c   Ladak, Hanif M ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; UROLOGY;

3D ULTRASOUND IMAGES; AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; AVERAGE DISTANCE; DEFORMABLE MODELING; MESH REFINEMENT; SEMI-AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; SHAPE INFORMATION; SURFACE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 35048852686     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2002.1029332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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