User-agent cooperation in multiagent IVUS image segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 94-105

  Bovenkamp, E G P ^a   Dijkstra, J ^a   Bosch, J G ^a   Reiber, J H C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperative systems; Image segmentation; Knowledge based systems

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FLOW INTERACTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ULTRASONICS;

AGENT COOPERATIONS; AND MODELS; AUTOMATED INTERPRETATIONS; COMPLEX IMAGES; CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGES; COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; CORRECTION METHODS; HIGH LEVEL OF ABSTRACTIONS; IMAGE INTERPRETATIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUNDS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED; MULTI AGENTS; OBSERVER VARIABILITIES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; USER INTERACTIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERT SYSTEM; FUZZY LOGIC; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CORONARY VESSELS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

EID: 58049213535     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.927351     Document Type: Article

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