Automated Segmentation of the Liver from 3D CT Images Using Probabilistic Atlas and Multilevel Statistical Shape Model

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1390-1403

  Okada, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Shimada, Ryuji ^a   Hori, Masatoshi ^b   Nakamoto, Masahiko ^a,b   Chen, Yen Wei ^c   Nakamura, Hironobu ^b   Sato, Yoshinobu ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

active shape model; body atlas; computational anatomy; hierarchical model; liver; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LIVER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 55149101115     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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