Dynamic edge tracing: Boundary identification in medical images

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1039-1052

  Withey, D J ^a   Pedrycz, W ^b   Koles, Z J ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Edge tracing; Image segmentation; Kalman filter; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical image analysis; Target tracking

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE OPERATIONS; AUTOMATIC TARGET TRACKING; BOUNDARY FOLLOWING; BOUNDARY IDENTIFICATION; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; EDGE TRACING; LEVEL SET; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGES; REGION GROWING; SLICE IMAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROL THEORY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KALMAN FILTERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; TARGET TRACKING; TARGETS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 69549103726     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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