Automated fat measurement and segmentation with intensity inhomogeneity correction

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7623, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Sussman, Daniel L ^a   Yao, Jianhua ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal MRI; Adipose tissue; inhomogeneity correction; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MRI; ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATED PROCESSING; AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENTS; FUZZY C MEAN; HEART DISEASE; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; INHOMOGENEITIES; INHOMOGENEITY CORRECTION; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY CORRECTION; MANUAL METHODS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONUNIFORM; SEGMENTATION; TISSUE CLASSIFICATION; VISCERAL FAT;

AUTOMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 79751470753     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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