Fast automatic segmentation of anatomical structures in x-ray computed tomography images to improve fluorescence molecular tomography reconstruction

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Freyer, Marcus ^a,b   Ale, Angelique ^a,b   Schulz, Ralf B ^a,b   Zientkowska, Marta ^b   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a,b   Englmeier, Karl Hans ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic image segmentation; Fluorescence molecular tomography; Laplace regularized reconstruction; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC STRUCTURES; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SCANNERS; LAPLACE REGULARIZED RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMAL SEGMENTATION; THRESHOLDING; TOMOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMALS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; X RAYS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

MURINAE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RIB; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RIBS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79958033282     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3431101     Document Type: Article

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