3D anisotropic diffusion for liver segmentation

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2009, Pages 108-112

  Wan Yussof, Wan Nural Jawahir ^a   Burkhardt, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D anisotropic diffusion; CT liver; Non linear filtering

Indexed keywords

3D ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; ABDOMINAL ORGANS; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; ANISOTROPIC FILTERING; AUTOMATIC THRESHOLD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTED COMPONENT; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; IMAGE NOISE; LIVER REGIONS; LIVER SEGMENTATION; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; THRESHOLDING; LIVER DIAGNOSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIVER; NONLINEAR FILTERING; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 78651531936     PISSN: 2010376X     EISSN: 20103778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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