Automated measurement and segmentation of abdominal adipose tissue in MRI

2010 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 936-939

  Sussman, Daniel Lewis ^a   Yao, Jianhua ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal MRI; Adipose tissue; Intensity inhomogeneity; Quantification; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTOMATED MEASUREMENT; AUTOMATED METHODS; FUZZY C MEAN; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONUNIFORM; RISK FACTORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 77955200827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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