Tensor scale-based anisotropic region growing for segmentation of elongated biological structures

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1032-1035

  Xu, Ziyue ^a   Gao, Zhiyun ^a   Hoffman, Eric A ^b   Saha, Punam K ^a,b  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropic region growing; fuzzy connectivity; image segmentation; local parameter control; tensor scale

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; CT IMAGING; ELLIPSOIDAL MODEL; ELONGATED STRUCTURES; FUZZY CONNECTIVITY; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IMAGING ARTIFACTS; LOCAL PARAMETERS; LOCAL STRUCTURE; REGION GROWING; TENSOR SCALE; VASCULAR STRUCTURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TENSORS;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 84864859068     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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