A 3D interactive multi-object segmentation tool using local robust statistics driven active contours

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1216-1227

  Gao, Yi ^a   Kikinis, Ron ^a   Bouix, Sylvain ^a   Shenton, Martha ^a   Tannenbaum, Allen ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Interactive segmentation; Multiple object segmentation; Open science; Robust statistics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; MULTIPLE OBJECTS; OPEN SCIENCE; ROBUST STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84866122464     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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