Automatic segmentation of antenatal 3-D ultrasound images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1388-1400

  Anquez, Jeremie ^a   Angelini, Elsa D ^b   Grange, Gilles ^c   Bloch, Isabelle ^b  

^a Theraclion   (France)

^b INSTITUT MINES TELECOM   (France)

^c Groupe Hospitalier Cochin Saint Vincent de Paul ^*  (France)

Author keywords

3 D ultrasonic imaging; Antenatal imaging; biomedical image processing; image segmentation; level sets

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BAYESIAN FORMULATION; BIO-MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET FORMULATIONS; LEVEL SET IMPLEMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; OPTIMIZATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BAYES THEOREM; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84876763523     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2237400     Document Type: Article

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