Variational image segmentation for endoscopic human colonic aberrant crypt foci

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 998-1011

  Figueiredo, Isabel N ^a   Figueiredo, Pedro N ^b,c   Stadler, Georg ^d   Ghattas, Omar ^d   Araujo, Adérito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Endoscopic images; Image segmentation; Level sets

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; COLORECTAL CANCER; EARLY DETECTION; ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE; ENDOSCOPIC IMAGES; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FINITE ELEMENT; HUMAN COLON; IN-VIVO; LEVEL SET; SEGMENTATION BOUNDARIES;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ABERRANT CRYPT FOCUS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABERRANT CRYPT FOCI; ALGORITHMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77950438513     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2036258     Document Type: Article

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