Computerized liver volumetry on MRI by using 3D geodesic active contour segmentation

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 152-159

  Huynh, Hieu Trung ^a,b   Karademir, Ibrahim ^a   Oto, Aytekin ^a   Suzuki, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Liver volumetry; MRI volumetry; Quantitative radiology; Resection; Segmentation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR SEGMENTATION; VERY ELDERLY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 84891915329     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.13.10812     Document Type: Article

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