Hierarchical object recognition in pelvic CT images

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3533-3536

  Vasilache, Simina ^a   Chen, Wenan ^a   Ward, Kevin ^b   Najarian, Kayvan ^b  

^a Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TISSUE;

BONE TISSUE; GREY LEVELS; HIERARCHICAL METHOD; HIERARCHICAL OBJECTS; PELVIC CT IMAGES; SEGMENTED OBJECTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950967061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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