Measurement of thermally ablated lesions in sonoelastographic images using level set methods

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6920, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Castaneda, Benjamin ^a   Tamez Pena, Jose Gerardo ^b   Zhang, Man ^a   Hoyt, Kenneth ^a   Bylund, Kevin ^c   Christensen, Jared ^c   Saad, Wael ^c   Strang, John ^c   Rubens, Deborah J ^c   Parker, Kevin J ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Fast marching methods; Image processing; Level set methods; Mumford Shah functional; Region growing; Segmentation; Sonoelastography

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

FAST MARCHING METHODS; LEVEL SET METHODS; MUMFORD-SHAH FUNCTIONAL; REGION GROWING; SONOELASTOGRAPHY;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 42949172393     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770811     Document Type: Conference Paper

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