Novel approach to segment the inner and outer boundaries of the bladder wall in T2-weighted magnetic resonance images

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2287-2297

  Ma, Zhen ^a   Jorge, Renato Natal ^a   Mascarenhas, T ^b   Tavares, João Manuel R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Imaging appearance; Medical imaging; Shape influence field

Indexed keywords

BLADDER WALL; CRITICAL MEASUREMENTS; DEFORMABLE MODELS; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; IMAGING FEATURES; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; MR IMAGES; SHAPE INFLUENCE FIELD; STATISTICAL INFORMATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 80051545701     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-011-0324-3     Document Type: Article

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