A fully automatic three-step liver segmentation method on LDA-based probability maps for multiple contrast MR images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 882-897

  Gloger, Oliver ^a   Kühn, Jens ^a   Stanski, Adam ^b   Völzke, Henry ^a   Puls, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic liver segmentation; Bayesian formulation; Fourier descriptors; Multiclass linear dimension reduction; Region growing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953812781     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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