Segmentation of complex objects with non-spherical topologies from volumetric medical images using 3D livewire

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Poon, Kelvin ^a   Hamarneh, Ghassan ^b   Abugharbieh, Rafeef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Other (3D livewire, semi automatic segmentation, user interaction); Segmentation

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONCAVITIES; NON-SPHERICAL TOPOLOGIES; PROTRUSIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 36249027643     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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