Automatic delineation of the inner thoracic region in non-contrast CT data

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 3569-3572

  Chittajallu, D R ^a   Balanca, P ^a   Kakadiaris, I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED GRAPHS; GRAPHIC METHODS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BIOMEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; CLOSED SET; GRAPH-BASED METHODS; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MINIMUM COST; SURFACE SEGMENTATION; WEIGHTED DIRECTED GRAPH;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950970809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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