A spatially adaptive active contour method for improving semi-automatic medical image annotation

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1878-1881

  Farmaki, C ^a,b   Marias, K ^a   Sakkalis, V ^a   Graf, N ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active contours; Local bending; Semiautomatic; Spatially adaptive; Tumor segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; IMAGE ANNOTATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL PHYSICS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; LOCAL BENDING; SEMIAUTOMATIC; SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE; TUMOR SEGMENTATION;

MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 77950105283     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03882-2_499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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