A novel method for extraction of spleen by using thin-plate splines (TPS) deformation and edge detection from abdominal CT images

BioMedical Engineering and Informatics: New Development and the Future - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2008

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 830-834

  Zhang, Xuejun ^a   Fujita, Hiroshi ^b   Qin, Tuanfa ^a   Zhao, Jinchuang ^a   Qin, Yurong ^a   Gao, Chao ^a   Long, Liling ^c   Zhang, Zuojun ^c  

^a GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Graduate School of Medicine   (Japan)

^c Gaungxi Medical University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER;

INFORMATICS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 51549116443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2008.206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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