Model-based segmentation of pathological lymph nodes in CT data

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7623, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Dornheim, Lars ^a,b   Dornheim, Jana ^a   Rössling, Ivo ^a   Mönch, Tobias ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Dornheim Medical Images GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT data; Dynamic Models; Lymph nodes; Segmentation; Stable Mass Spring Models

Indexed keywords

CT DATA; DATA SETS; HUMAN EXPERT; LYMPH NODE; MODEL-BASED SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; STABLE MASS SPRING MODELS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA HANDLING; DYNAMIC MODELS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS;

BODY FLUIDS;

EID: 79551522077     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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