Integrated segmentation and non-linear registration for organ segmentation and motion field estimation in 4D CT data

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 344-349

  Schmidt Richberg, A ^a   Handels, H ^a   Ehrhardt, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D CT; Computer assisted image analysis; Level set segmentation; Motion estimation; Variational registration

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349568676     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME9234     Document Type: Article

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