Automatic liver and lesion segmentation: A primary step in diagnosis of liver diseases

Signal, Image and Video Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 163-172

  Kumar, S S ^a   Moni, R S ^a   Rajeesh, J ^a  

^a NOORUL ISLAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Alternative FCM; Lesion segmentation; Liver segmentation; Volume measurement confidence connected region growing

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FCM; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTED REGION; CT IMAGE; FALSE NEGATIVE ERRORS; FALSE POSITIVE; FIGURE OF MERITS; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER SEGMENTATION; LIVER SURGERY; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL OVERLAP;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TISSUE; TITRATION; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL); VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84871921854     PISSN: 18631703     EISSN: 18631711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11760-011-0223-y     Document Type: Article

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