Semi-automatic lymph node segmentation in LN-MRI

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 77-80

  Unal, G ^a   Slabaugh, G ^a   Ess, A ^b   Yezzi, A ^c   Fang, T ^a   Tyan, J ^a   Requardt, M ^d   Krieg, R ^d   Seethamraju, R ^a   Harisinghani, M ^e   Weissleder, R ^e  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical image processing; Biomedical magnetic resonance imaging; Image segmentation; Medical diagnosis

Indexed keywords

BIO-MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; BIOMEDICAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; CANCER STAGING; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; MRI SEQUENCES; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SPECIFIC INFORMATION;

BODY FLUIDS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NANOMAGNETICS; RESONANCE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 63149099059     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2006.312366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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