Liver segmentation based on expectation maximization and morphological filters in CT images

2007 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, ICBBE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 690-693

  Ma, Li ^a   Yang, L ^b  

^a HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG CHINESE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization; Image segmentati; Morphological operators

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE CULTURE; TUMORS;

ANATOMIC ORGANS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION TASKS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 35348873168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2007.180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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