Liver segmentation from CT images based on region growing method

3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chen, Yufei ^a,b   Wang, Zhicheng ^a   Zhao, Weidong ^a   Yang, Xiaochun ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropic filter; Centroid detection; Gaussian function; Liver segmentation; Morphologic operation; Region growing method

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC FILTERS; CENTROID DETECTION; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; LIVER SEGMENTATION; REGION GROWING METHODS;

ANISOTROPY; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

LIVER;

EID: 72749087348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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