Lesion detection in noisy MR brain images using constrained GMM and active contours

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 596-599

  Freifeld, Oren ^a   Greenspan, Hayit ^a   Goldberger, Jacob ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

MRI; MS lesions; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR ALGORITHMS; BRAIN IMAGES; BRAIN MR SIMULATION DATA; LESION BOUNDARIES;

BRAIN; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 36349008677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2007.356922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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