A region segmentation method for colonoscopy images using a model of polyp appearance

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6669 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 134-142

  Bernal, Jorge ^a   Sánchez, Javier ^a   Vilariño, Fernando ^a  

^a Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Polyp Detection; Region Merging; Region Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COLONOSCOPY; POLYP DETECTION; REGION SEGMENTATION; REGION-MERGING; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

ALGORITHMS; ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79960022971     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21257-4_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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