Graph cut liver segmentation for interstitial ultrasound therapy

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5247-5250

  Esneault, Simon ^a,b   Hraiech, Najan ^a,b,c   Delabrousse, Éric ^a,d   Dillenseger, Jean Louis ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c ANSYS INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAPH THEORY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

GRAPH CUT LIVER SEGMENTATION; HEPATIC VASCULAR NETWORKS; INTERSTITIAL ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ONCOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 57649238603     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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