Shape characterization of extracted and simulated tumor samples using topological and geometric measures

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 6271-6277

  Rohrschneider, Markus ^a   Scheuermann, Gerik ^a   Hoehme, Stefan ^a   Drasdo, Dirk ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c IZBI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHAPE CHARACTERIZATION; SOLID TUMORS; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

GEOMETRY; HISTOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; STATISTICS;

TUMORS;

EID: 57649228961     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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