Quick detection of brain tumors and edemas: A bounding box method using symmetry

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 95-107

  Saha, Baidya Nath ^a   Ray, Nilanjan ^a   Greiner, Russell ^a   Murtha, Albert ^b   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bhattacharya coefficient; Brain tumor; Brain tumor detection; Edema

Indexed keywords

AXIAL VIEW; BHATTACHARYA COEFFICIENT; BOUNDING BOX; BOUNDING BOX TECHNIQUES; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR DETECTION; BRAIN TUMORS; CHANGE DETECTION; DICE COEFFICIENT; EDEMA; GRAY LEVEL INTENSITY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; REGION-BASED; SCORE FUNCTION; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL DETECTION; TUMORS;

BRAIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EDEMA; FAST BOUNDING BOX ALGORITHM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83155166944     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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