Spatially adaptive active contours: A semi-automatic tumor segmentation framework

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 369-384

  Farmaki, Cristina ^a   Marias, Konstantinos ^a   Sakkalis, Vangelis ^a   Graf, Norbert ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active contours; Semi automatic segmentation; Spatially adaptive contours; Tumor segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; KIDNEY TUMOR; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 77955980584     PISSN: 18616410     EISSN: 18616429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-010-0477-9     Document Type: Article

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