Liver segmentation by intensity analysis and anatomical information in multi-slice CT images

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-297

  Foruzan, Amir H ^a   Aghaeizadeh Zoroofi, Reza ^a   Hori, Masatoshi ^b   Sato, Yoshinobu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heart segmentation; Initial liver border; Liver segmentation; Liver's ROI; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349736184     PISSN: 18616410     EISSN: 18616429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-009-0293-2     Document Type: Article

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