Gain by mixture-based image segmentation for virtual colonoscopy with colonic material tagging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6511, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Li, Hong ^a,b   Wang, Su ^a   Wang, Zigang ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Lu, Hongbing ^c   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electronic colon cleansing; EM algorithm; MAP image segmentation; Parameter estimation; PV effect; Tissue mixture

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

COLONOSCOPY; ELECTRONIC COLON CLEANSING; PV EFFECT; TISSUE MIXTURE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 35148881745     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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