A method for extracting multi-organ from four-phase contrasted CT images based on CT value distribution estimation using EM-algorithm

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Sakashita, Makiko ^a   Kitasaka, Takayuki ^a   Mori, Kensaku ^a   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a   Nawano, Shigeru ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT image; Computer aided diagnosis; CT value distribution estimation; Multi disease; Multi organ; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ESTIMATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ABDOMINAL CT IMAGE; COMPONENT ANALYSIS; EM-ALGORITHM; PANCREAS; VOLUMETRIC IMAGE REGISTRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35248857504     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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