A two-stage approach for fully automatic segmentation of venous vascular structures in liver CT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7259, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kaftan, Jens N ^a,b   Tek, Hüseyin ^c   Aach, Til ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Hepatic vessel; Liver; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CLINICAL ROUTINE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; FILTER RESPONSE; HIGH SPECIFICITY; LIVER CT; LIVER SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SURGICAL PLANNING; TERMINAL POINTS; TWO STAGE; VASCULAR STRUCTURES; VASCULAR TREES; VESSEL SEGMENTATION; VESSEL TRACKING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

LIVER;

EID: 71649088633     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.812407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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