Unsupervised segmentation of the prostate using MR images based on level set with a shape prior

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 3613-3616

  Liu, Xin ^a   Langer, D L ^b,c   Haider, M A ^b,c   Van Der Kwast, T H ^d   Evans, A J ^e   Wernick, M N ^a   Yetik, I S ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Level set; Magnetic resonance imaging; Prostate; Shape prior

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DISEASES; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; UROLOGY;

LEVEL SET; LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; PROSTATE; SHAPE PRIORS; SURGICAL PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77951009254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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