Fluid vector flow and applications in brain tumor segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 781-789

  Wang, Tao ^a   Cheng, Irene ^a   Basu, Anup ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active contour models; Brain tumor; Segmentation; Snakes; Vector flow

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; BRAIN TUMOR; SEGMENTATION; SNAKES; VECTOR FLOW;

BRAIN MODELS; IMAGE PROCESSING; TUMORS; VECTORS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; FLUID FLOW; HEAD; HUMAN; INTERNET; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 65349098028     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2012423     Document Type: Article

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