Automatic partitioning of head CTA for enabling segmentation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 I, Issue , 2004, Pages 410-419

  Suryanarayanan, Srikanth ^a   Mullick, Rakesh ^a   Mallya, Yogish ^a   Kamath, Vidya ^a   Nagaraj, Nithin ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; BONE; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE PROCESSING; TISSUE;

ANEURYSMS; IMAGE ENTROPY; SUB-MILLIMETER RESOLUTION; THIN HOLLOW STRUCTURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 5644280451     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.533933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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