Automatic segmentation of hepatic tissue and 3D volume analysis of cirrhosis in multi-detector row CT scans and MR imaging

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E87-D, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2138-2147

  Zhang, Xuejun ^a   Li, Wenguang ^a   Fujita, Hiroshi ^a   Kanematsu, Masayuki ^a   Hara, Takeshi ^a   Zhou, Xiangrong ^a   Kondo, Hiroshi ^a   Hoshi, Hiroaki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Contour detection; Image segmentation; Liver; MR imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY; TISSUE;

CIRRHOSIS; CONTOUR DETECTION; LEFT-TO-WHOLE (LTW); LIVER;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 4344596363     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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