Area prior constrained level set evolution for medical image segmentation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6914, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ayed, Ismail Ben ^a   Li, Shuo ^a   Islam, Ali ^b   Garvin, Greg ^b   Chhem, Rethy ^c  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area prior; CT; Curve evolution; Image segmentation; Level set; MRI

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

AREA PRIOR CONSTRAINTS; CURVE EVOLUTION; IMAGE INTENSITIES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 43449138220     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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