Level set image segmentation with a statistical overlap constraint

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5636 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 589-601

  Ben Ayed, Ismail ^a   Li, Shuo ^a   Ross, Ian ^b  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; BHATTACHARYYA COEFFICIENT; CARDIAC IMAGES; CLINICAL USE; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURRENT INTENSITY; CURVE EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; GAUSSIAN ASSUMPTION; GAUSSIANS; IMAGE DATA; LAGRANGE; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION; LIVER IMAGES; NON-PARAMETRIC; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS; TRAINING IMAGE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349326450     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02498-6_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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