An EM approach to MAP solution of segmenting tissue mixture percentages with application to CT-based virtual colonoscopy

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5787-5798

  Wang, Su ^a   Li, Lihong ^a,b   Cohen, Harris ^a   Mankes, Seth ^a   Chen, John J ^c   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic colon cleansing; Fecal tagging; MAP EM image segmentation; Partial volume effect; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MIXTURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PIPELINES; TISSUE;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY COLONOGRAPHY; CT-BASED VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY; ELECTRONIC COLON CLEANSING; EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; FECAL TAGGING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLON LAVAGE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAP EM ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 56749156908     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3013591     Document Type: Article

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