Segmentation of brain tumors in MRI images using multi-scale gradient vector flow

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 7973-7976

  Kazerooni, Anahita Fathi ^a   Ahmadian, Alireza ^a   Serej, Nassim Dadashi ^a   Rad, Hamidreza Saligheh ^a   Saberi, Hooshang ^b   Yousefi, Hossein ^a   Farnia, Parastoo ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

B spline snake; Brain tumor segmentation; Multi scale GVF; traditional GVF

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; B-SPLINE; B-SPLINE SNAKES; BRAIN TUMOR SEGMENTATION; BRAIN TUMORS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; EDGE DETECTORS; EDGE MAP; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; LOCAL CONTROL; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MRI IMAGE; MULTISCALES; ROBUSTNESS AGAINST NOISE; SMALL SCALE; TRADITIONAL GVF; TUMOR SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; EDGE DETECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84861692244     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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