A neural network for thyroid segmentation and volume estimation in CT images

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 43-55

  Chang, Chuan Yu ^a   Chung, Pau Choo ^b   Hong, Yong Cheng ^a   Tseng, Chin Hsiao ^c  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; CT IMAGE; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION NEURAL NETWORKS; REGION OF INTEREST; REGION SEGMENTATION; THYROID GLANDS; THYROID VOLUME; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 80054939859     PISSN: 1556603X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCI.2011.942756     Document Type: Article

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