Computer-aided lymph node segmentation in volumetric CT data

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5419-5428

  Beichel, Reinhard R ^a,b,c   Wang, Yao ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

lymph node segmentation; optimal surface finding

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; ERRORS; GRAPH STRUCTURES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TESTING;

COMPUTER AIDED METHODS; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; LYMPH NODE; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; OPTIMAL SURFACE FINDING; REFINEMENT ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SURFACE-BASED SEGMENTATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84866111337     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4742845     Document Type: Article

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