Detection of sclerotic bone metastases in the spine using watershed algorithm and graph cut

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8315, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wiese, Tatjana ^a   Yao, Jianhua ^a   Burns, Joseph E ^b   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection; Graph cut; Sclerotic bone metastasis; Watershed algorithm

Indexed keywords

BONE METASTASIS; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FALSE POSITIVE; GRAPH CUT; OVER SEGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE FEATURES; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM;

BONE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAPHIC METHODS; LANDFORMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WATERSHEDS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84874863224     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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