An improved level set for liver segmentation and perfusion analysis in MRIs

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 94-103

  Chen, Gang ^a   Gu, Lixu ^a   Qian, Lijun ^b   Xu, Jianrong ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Level set methods (LSMs); Liver perfusion analysis; Liver segmentation; Multiple initializations

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BLOOD SUPPLY; CHAMFER MATCHING; CONTOUR EXTRACTION; CONVEX HULL ALGORITHM; FAST MARCHING METHODS; GLOBAL LEVELS; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVEL SET METHODS (LSMS); LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER PERFUSION ANALYSIS; LIVER SEGMENTATION; MULTIPLE INITIALIZATIONS; OVER SEGMENTATION; PERFUSION ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DROP BREAKUP; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

LIVER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 63449083735     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.2007110     Document Type: Article

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