Automatic segmentation of spinal cord MRI using symmetric boundary tracing

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1275-1278

  Mukherjee, Dipti Prasad ^a   Cheng, Irene ^b   Ray, Nilanjan ^b   Mushahwar, Vivian ^b   Lebel, Marc ^b   Basu, Anup ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contour tracing; rehabilitation surgery; segmentation; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BOUNDARY TRACING; CONTOUR TRACING; REHABILITATION SURGERY; SEGMENTATION; SPINAL CORDS; SURGERY PLANNING; VISUAL GUIDANCE; VOLUME OF INTEREST;

SURGERY;

DOSIMETRY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAT; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77956369264     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2052060     Document Type: Article

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