Watershed segmentation of intervertebral disk and spinal canal from MRI images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4633 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 1017-1027

  Chevrefils, Claudia ^a,b   Chériet, Farida ^a,b   Grimard, Guy ^b   Aubin, Cari Eric ^a,b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; SPINAL CANAL;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 37849035760     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74260-9_90     Document Type: Conference Paper

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