SoftSTAPLE: Truth and performance-level estimation from probabilistic segmentations

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 441-446

  Weisenfeld, Neil I ^a   Warfield, Simon K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

classification; classifier fusion; segmentation; validation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFIER FUSION; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; REAL WORLD DATA; REFERENCE STANDARD; VALIDATION; WEAK CLASSIFIERS;

ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 80055032486     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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