A tool for handling uncertainty in segmenting regions of interest in medical images

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 194-210

  Kontos, Despina ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Megalooikonomou, Vasileios ^a   Maurer, Alan H ^b   Knight, Linda C ^b   Kantor, Steve ^b   Simonian, Hrair P ^b   Parkman, Henry P ^b  

^a Temple University   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

fuzzy connectedness; medical image analysis; region segmentation; regions of interest (ROIs); software tool; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149278681     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijista.2006.009904     Document Type: Article

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