Computer-aided measurement of liver volumes in CT by means of geodesic active contour segmentation coupled with level-set algorithms

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2159-2166

  Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Kohlbrenner, Ryan ^a   Epstein, Mark L ^a   Obajuluwa, Ademola M ^a   Xu, Jianwu ^a   Hori, Masatoshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Computer aided diagnosis; Hepatic CT; Liver transplantation; Liver volumetry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; EXTRACTION; GEODESY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIVER; NEONATAL MONITORING; NOISE ABATEMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERS; COMPUTER AIDED MEASUREMENTS; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEAN ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; VOLUMETRY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77952395255     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3395579     Document Type: Article

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