A skull segmentation method for brain MR images based on multiscale bilateral filtering scheme

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7623, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Fei, Baowei ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bilateral filter; multiscale scheme; PET MRI; Radon transform; skull segmentation

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL FILTERS; MULTISCALE SCHEMES; PET/MRI; RADON TRANSFORM; SKULL SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADON;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79751490662     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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