Contourlet-based active contour model for PET image segmentation

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Abdoli, M ^a   Dierckx, R A J O ^a   Zaidi, H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

active contour; anisotropic diffusion filter; contourlet; PET; segmentation

Indexed keywords

BREEDER REACTORS; CURVE FITTING; DIAGNOSIS; ERRORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; TRACERS; TUMORS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; ACTIVE CONTOURS WITHOUT EDGES; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERING; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERS; CONTOURLETS; RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; TUMOR TO BACKGROUND RATIOS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

TRACER;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERING; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MEAN CLASSIFICATION ERROR; MEAN RELATIVE ERROR; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; THEORETICAL MODEL; PROCEDURES;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881620008     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4816296     Document Type: Article

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