Fast prostate segmentation in 3D TRUS images based on continuity constraint using an autoregressive model

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4109-4125

  Ding, Mingyue ^a,b   Chiu, Bernard ^a,c   Gyacskov, Igor ^a   Yuan, Xiaping ^a   Drangova, Maria ^a   Downey, Dònal B ^a,c   Fenster, Aaron ^a,c  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Autoregressive (AR) model; Prostate segmentation; Volume reslicing

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; ULTRASONICS; UROLOGY;

3-D ULTRASOUND; 3D PROSTATE SEGMENTATIONS; AUTO REGRESSIVE MODELS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONTINUITY CONSTRAINTS; CROSS SECTIONAL PROFILES; PROSTATE SEGMENTATION; VOLUME RESLICING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VARIANCE;

EID: 35649025328     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2777005     Document Type: Article

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