Tumour segmentation by active contours in 3D CT wavelet enhanced image data

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1567-1571

  Plajer, Ioana ^a,b   Nguyen Pham, Tai Khoa ^a   Richter, Detlef ^a  

^a RHEINMAIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CANCER THERAPY; CT IMAGE; IMAGE DATA; LOCAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; NONLINEAR OPERATOR; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPACE-FREQUENCY DOMAIN; TUMOR VOLUMES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TUMORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84863744018     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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