Graph-based segmentation of lymph nodes in CT data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6454 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages 312-321

  Wang, Yao ^a   Beichel, Reinhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

graph based segmentation; lymph node segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICES; CT DATA; ERROR PRONES; GRAPH-BASED; GRAPH-BASED SEGMENTATION; LYMPH NODE; POSITIONING ERROR; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; STANDARD DEVIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; BODY FLUIDS; DISEASES; GRAPHIC METHODS;

BODY FLUIDS; GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 78650761816     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17274-8_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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