A 3-D liver segmentation method with parallel computing for selective internal radiation therapy

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-69

  Goryawala, Mohammed ^a   Guillen, Magno R ^b   Cabrerizo, Mercedes ^a   Barreto, Armando ^a   Gulec, Seza ^c   Barot, Tushar C ^c   Suthar, Rekha R ^c   Bhatt, Ruchir N ^a   McGoron, Anthony ^a   Adjouadi, Malek ^a  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Dreconstruction; Image segmentation; K means algorithm; Liver segmentation; MATLAB; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

3-D RENDERING; 3-DRECONSTRUCTION; 3D SEGMENTATION; AVERAGE ERRORS; CLINICAL SETTINGS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; INTERNAL RADIATION; K-MEANS; K-MEANS ALGORITHM; LIVER SEGMENTATION; LIVER TUMORS; MEDICAL IMAGES; MULTI-CORE PLATFORMS; PARALLELIZATIONS; PROCESSING TIME; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION PROCESS; USER INTERACTION; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATLAB; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TUMORS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856858148     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2171191     Document Type: Article

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