Liver segmentation in contrast enhanced CT data using graph cuts and interactive 3D segmentation refinement methods

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1361-1373

  Beichel, Reinhard ^a   Bornik, Alexander ^b   Bauer, Christian ^c   Sorantin, Erich ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c IA United States   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

graph cuts; liver segmentation; segmentation refinement; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; GRAPHIC METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; RADIOTHERAPY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GRAPH CUT; GRAPH CUTS SEGMENTATIONS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; LIVER SEGMENTATION; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION; VOLUMETRIC SEGMENTATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84857808188     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3682171     Document Type: Article

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