A practical method for muscles extraction and automatic segmentation of leg magnetic resonance images

2007 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 885-890

  Wang, Changming ^a   Guo, Xiaojuan ^a   Yao, Li ^a   Li, Ke ^b   Jin, Zhen ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b 306 HOSPITAL OF PLA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BRIGHTNESS DISTRIBUTION; DEFORMABLE MODELING; INTEGRATED ALGORITHMS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEG MUSCLES; MEDICAL ENGINEERING; MR IMAGING; PRACTICAL METHODS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE; RESONANCE; TECHNOLOGY;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 48149098596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCME.2007.4381868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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