From hemorrhage to midline shift: A new method of tracing the deformed midline in traumatic brain injury CT images

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2637-2640

  Liu, Ruizhe ^a   Li, Shimiao ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^a   Pang, Boon Chuan ^b   Lim, C C Tchoyoson ^b   Lee, Cheng Kiang ^b   Tian, Qi ^c   Zhang, Zhuo ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b National Neuroscience Institute

^c Institute for Infocomm Research

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Hemorrhage; Medical image analysis; Midline shift; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LINEAR REGRESSION;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT IMAGE; CT SCAN; DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; MLS MODELS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951961753     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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