Hybrid segmentation of colon boundaries in CT images based on geometric deformable model

ICSPC 2007 Proceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 967-970

  Hamidpour, Sh F ^a   Ahmadian, A ^a,b   Zoroofi, R A ^c   Bidgoli, J H ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Colonic walls segmentation; Geometric deformable model; Regiongrowing; Thresholding; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

COLONIC WALLS SEGMENTATION; GEOMETRIC DEFORMABLE MODEL; REGIONGROWING; THRESHOLDING; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

DEFORMATION;

EID: 60349086713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSPC.2007.4728482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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