Variational approach for small-size lung nodule segmentation

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 81-84

  Farag, Amal A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Level Sets; Lung Nodule; Shape Priors

Indexed keywords

ENERGY FUNCTIONS; IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES; LEVEL SET; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NODULE SEGMENTATION; SHAPE PRIORS; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881638393     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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