Prostate segmentation on pelvic CT images using a genetic algorithm

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6914, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ghosh, Payel ^a   Mitchell, Melanie ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable geometry; Segmentation; Shape; Texture

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

DEFORMABLE GEOMETRY; PROSTATE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 43449123651     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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