Automatic segmentation of conductivity changes in electrical impedance tomography images

BIOSIGNALS 2011 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 215-220

  Zifan, A ^a   Liatsis, P ^a   Kantartzis, P ^a   Vargas Canas, R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrical impedance tomography; Mesh; Probabilistic modeling and segmentation

Indexed keywords

3-D FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CONDUCTIVITY CHANGES; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; ILL-CONDITIONED; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; LUNG VOLUME; MESH; NON-LINEAR; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; NOVEL METHODS; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; PROPAGATION OF ERROR; RECTANGULAR GRIDS; REGION OF INTEREST; REGULARISATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79960205091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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