Texture feature based automated seeded region growing in Abdominal MRI segmentation

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 263-267

  Wu, Jie ^a   Poehlman, Skip ^a   Noseworthy, Michael D ^a,b   Kamath, Markad V ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Brain Body Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

INFORMATICS; TEXTURE FEATURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 51749105692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2008.352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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