Computer oriented image acquisition of the liver: Toward a better numerical model for radiofrequency ablation

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 3755-3758

  Muehl, Judith K ^a   Kainz, Bernhard K ^a   Portugaller, Horst R ^b   Stiegler, Philipp B ^b   Bauer, Christian H ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CLINICAL ROUTINE; LIVER MODELING; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; SURFACE ACCURACY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 77950993076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334539     Document Type: Conference Paper

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