A novel content-based active contour model for brain tumor segmentation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 694-715

  Sachdeva, Jainy ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^a   Gupta, Indra ^a   Khandelwal, Niranjan ^b   Ahuja, Chirag Kamal ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

2.5 dimensional segmentation; Brain tumor segmentation; Content based active contour (CBAC); Heterogeneous tumors; Homogeneous tumors; Synthetic images

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

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

EID: 84860443995     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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