Multi-atlas-based segmentation with local decision fusion-application to cardiac and aortic segmentation in CT scans

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1000-1010

  Išgum, Ivana ^a   Staring, Marius ^b   Rutten, Annemarieke ^b   Prokop, Mathias ^b   Viergever, Max A ^b   Van Ginneken, Bram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aortic segmentation; Atlas based segmentation; Cardiac segmentation; Registration; Segmentation by registration

Indexed keywords

AORTIC SEGMENTATION; ATLAS-BASED SEGMENTATION; CARDIAC SEGMENTATION; REGISTRATION; SEGMENTATION BY REGISTRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALGORITHM; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67649512401     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2011480     Document Type: Article

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