Globally optimal spinal cord segmentation using a minimal path in high dimensions

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 848-851

  Kawahara, Jeremy ^a   McIntosh, Chris ^a,b   Tam, Roger ^c   Hamarneh, Ghassan ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

minimal paths; principal component analysis; Segmentation; spinal cord analysis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE; MINIMAL PATH; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE; OPTIMAL SEGMENTATION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; SPINAL CORDS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881655004     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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