Automatic femur segmentation and condyle line detection in 3D MR scans for alignment of high resolution MR

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 940-943

  Jolly, M P ^a   Alvino, C ^a   Odry, B ^a   Deng, X ^b   Zheng, J ^b   Harder, M ^c   Guehring, J ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SIEMENS LTD   (China)

^c Siemens Healthcare   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov Models; Knee scan planning; Magnetic resonance imaging; Random Walker segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; CORONAL PLANES; DATA SETS; FRAME OF REFERENCE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN READERS; KNEE JOINT; KNEE SCAN PLANNING; LINE DETECTION; RANDOM WALKER SEGMENTATION; RANDOM WALKERS; TWO-LINE;

JOINTS (ANATOMY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 77955213672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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