Urinary bladder segmentation in CT urography (CTU) using CLASS

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Hadjiiski, Lubomir ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Cohan, Richard H ^a   Caoili, Elaine M ^a   Law, Yuen ^a   Cha, Kenny ^a   Zhou, Chuan ^a   Wei, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

bladder; computer aided diagnosis; CT urography; level set; malignancy; segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DROP BREAKUP; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

BLADDER; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION; MALIGNANCY; POST-PROCESSING STAGES; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; UROGRAPHY;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC UROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UROGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BLADDER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 84889686220     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4823792     Document Type: Article

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