Simultaneous estimation and segmentation of T 1 map for breast parenchyma measurement

2007 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 332-335

  Ye, Xing ^a   Yangming, Ou ^a   Englander, Sarah ^b   Schnall, Mitchell ^b   Dinggang, Shen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Estimation; Image segmentation; Parenchyma; T 1 map

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; EDGE-PRESERVING SMOOTHING; PARENCHYMA;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMARKERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 36348949109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2007.356856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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