Comparison of two-dimensional and three-dimensional iterative watershed segmentation methods in hepatic tumor volumetrics

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5869-5881

  Ray, Shonket ^a,b   Hagge, Rosalie ^b   Gillen, Marijo ^b   Cerejo, Miguel ^b   Shakeri, Shidrokh ^b   Beckett, Laurel ^c   Greasby, Tamara ^c   Badawi, Ramsey D ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Gradient vector flow; Iterative watershed method; Marker based watershed; RECIST; Tumor segmentation

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PHANTOMS; TUMORS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; RECIST; TUMOR SEGMENTATION; WATERSHED METHODS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 56749104626     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3013561     Document Type: Article

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