Automatic liver parenchyma segmentation from abdominal CT images using support vector machines

2009 ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Luo, Suhuai ^a   Hu, Qingmao ^b   He, Xiangjian ^c   Li, Jiaming ^d   Jin, Jesse S ^a   Park, Mira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CT DATA; CT IMAGE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; PERFORMANCE VALIDATION; PIXEL LEVEL; REMOVE NOISE; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SURGICAL PLANNING; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE DESCRIPTORS; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET FEATURES;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PIXELS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXTURES;

LIVER;

EID: 67650693053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCME.2009.4906625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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