A region growing method for medical images segmentation

International Journal of Tomography and Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue W10, 2010, Pages 19-37

  de Santis, Alberto ^a   Iacoviello, Daniela ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angiography; Computer tomography; Discrete level set; Image segmentation; Mri imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955988032     PISSN: 09729976     EISSN: 09737294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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