Square-cut: A segmentation algorithm on the basis of a rectangle shape

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Egger, Jan ^a,b   Kapur, Tina ^a   Dukatz, Thomas ^b   Kolodziej, Malgorzata ^b   Zukić, Dženan ^c   Freisleben, Bernd ^b   Nimsky, Christopher ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DICE SIMILARITY COEFFICIENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROSURGEON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECTANGLE BASE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; SQUARE CUT; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VERTEBRA; AUTOMATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE;

EID: 84857401879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031064     Document Type: Article

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