Computational modeling of thoracic and abdominal anatomy using spatial relationships for image segmentation

Real-Time Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 263-273

  Camara, O ^a,b   Colliot, O ^a,c   Bloch, I ^a  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUMORS;

ABDOMINAL STRUCTURES; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); REGIONS OF INTEREST (ROI);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 4644324580     PISSN: 10772014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rti.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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