Semi automatic MRI prostate segmentation based on wavelet multiscale products

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3020-3023

  Flores Tapia, Daniel ^a   Thomas, Gabriel ^a   Venugopal, Niranjan ^b   McCurdy, Boyd ^a,c   Pistorius, Stephen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c CancerCare MB ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; PATIENT TREATMENT;

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE CONTOURS; PROSTATE SEGMENTATION; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; TREATMENT PLANS; WAVELET DOMAIN; WAVELET MULTISCALE PRODUCTS;

UROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61849104155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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