Robust segmentation and accurate target definition for positron emission tomography images using Affinity Propagation

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1461-1464

  Foster, Brent ^a   Bagci, Ulas ^a   Luna, Brian ^b   Dey, Bappaditya ^b   Bishai, William ^b   Jain, Sanjay ^b   Xu, Ziyue ^a   Mollura, Daniel J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affinity Propagation; Image Segmentation; PET Segmentation; Target Definition; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSITRONS;

AFFINITY PROPAGATION; INTENSITY-BASED METHODS; OPTIMAL THRESHOLDING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); REGION-BASED METHODS; ROBUST SEGMENTATION; TARGET DEFINITIONS; THRESHOLDING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881641722     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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