Automated segmentation and quantification of liver and spleen from CT images using normalized probabilistic atlases and enhancement estimation

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 771-783

  Linguraru, Marius George ^a   Sandberg, Jesse K ^a   Li, Zhixi ^a   Shah, Furhawn ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging biomarkers; Liver; Probabilistic atlas; Segmentation; Spleen

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOMARKERS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ERRORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIVER; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ABDOMINAL CONTRAST-ENHANCED CT; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOOL; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; IMAGING BIOMARKERS; PROBABILISTIC ATLAS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SPLEEN;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 75749136560     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3284530     Document Type: Article

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