Uncertainty-aware guided volume segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1358-1365

  Praßni, Jörg Stefan ^a   Ropinski, Timo ^a   Hinrichs, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

classification; random walker; uncertainty; volume segmentation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MRI; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; FEATURE DETECTION; INTERACTIVE WORKFLOW; ITERATIVE PROCESS; MEDICAL DATA SETS; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; RANDOM WALKERS; SEGMENTATION ERROR; SEGMENTATION PROCESS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; UNCERTAINTY; VOLUME DATA; VOLUME SEGMENTATION; VOLUMETRIC DATA;

VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149276094     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.208     Document Type: Article

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