Medical image segmentation using watershed segmentation with texture-based region merging

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 4039-4042

  Ng, H P ^a   Huang, S ^a   Ong, S H ^b   Foong, K W C ^b   Goh, P S ^b   Nowinski, W L ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MERGING; TEXTURES;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; ANGULAR SECOND MOMENT; AUTOMATED THRESHOLDING; GRADIENT MAGNITUDE IMAGE; INITIAL SEGMENTATION; INVERSE DIFFERENCES; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 61849180409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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