Segmentation of liver region with tumorous tissues

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, Xuejun ^a,c   Lee, Gobert ^a   Tajima, Tetsuji ^a   Kitagawa, Teruhiko ^a   Kanematsu, Masayuki ^b   Zhou, Xiangrong ^a   Hara, Takeshi ^a   Fujita, Hiroshi ^a   Yokoyama, Ryujiro ^b   Kondo, Hiroshi ^b   Hoshi, Hiroaki ^b   Nawano, Shigeru ^d   Shinozaki, Kenji ^e  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL KYUSHU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Edge extraction; Liver; Multi phase CT; Segmentation; Subtraction method; Tumor

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUMORS;

EDGE EXTRACTION; HEPATIC TUMORS; LIVER TISSUE; SUBTRACTION METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 36248933715     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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