Automated MAP-MRF em labelling for volume determination in PET

2008 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Proceedings, ISBI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-4

  Gribben, Hugh ^a   Miller, Paul ^a   Wang, Hongbin ^a   Carson, Kathryn ^b   Hounsell, Alan ^b   Zatari, Ashraf ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Medical Physics Agency   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EM; MAP MRF; PET; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MAPS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

E-M ALGORITHMS; EM; MAP-MRF; PET; SEGMENTATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 51049109213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2008.4540917     Document Type: Conference Paper

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