Automatic segmentation of enhancing breast tissue in dynamic contrast-enhanced MR images

Proceedings - Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications: 9th Biennial Conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society, DICTA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 124-129

  Gal, Yaniv ^a   Mehnert, Andrew ^a   Bradley, Andrew ^a   McMahon, Kerry ^b   Crozier, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GREENSLOPES PRIVATE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEALTH; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTORESISTS;

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BREAST MRI (BMRI); BREAST TISSUES; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSTIC (CAD); CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DATA SETS; DIGITAL IMAGE COMPUTING; DYNAMIC CONTRAST; MR IMAGING; NOVEL METHODS; ORIGINAL IMAGES; PARAMETRIC MODELING; QUANTITATIVE FEATURES; SEEDED REGION GROWING; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

TISSUE;

EID: 44949100563     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2007.4426786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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