An improved variational level set method for MR image segmentation and bias field correction

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 439-447

  Zhan, Tianming ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Xiao, Liang ^a   Chen, Yunjie ^b   Wei, Zhihui ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bias field correction; Medical image segmentation; Three phase level set framework

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84875239633     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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